omgoddess this was beautiful! I love how your brain works. i love the epic sweeping feeling of this, the merging of myth and reality (if we can even separate those), the provocation and invitation to consider what brings us to the brink now and how we story it. All of it. Also makes me think of how David Abram writes about past, present, and future (the underground as the embodied past, the air we breathe as the embodied present, and the horizon as the embodied future) in The Spell of the Sensuous. Thank you for you, and this.
Millie grazie for reading this and for your thoughts. Yes, I'm with - can we ever fully separate myth and reality? I doubt it, which is not a bad thing - it's how our magical realism minds work ultimatlely I think...
...but maybe possibly in certain ways and situations... or to at least know this about ourselves and each other helps, I think, so that we don't fight each other (or at least fight less) over conjectures... that's is my hope, anyway... on the flipside, there's totally place we want to let the mythic and mysterious run, too
That David Abram book sounds dreamy and amazing; I'd hadn't heard of it before. I'm sticking it on my book list now!
Appreciate you, your beautiful brain, and magical words, J.
omgoddess this was beautiful! I love how your brain works. i love the epic sweeping feeling of this, the merging of myth and reality (if we can even separate those), the provocation and invitation to consider what brings us to the brink now and how we story it. All of it. Also makes me think of how David Abram writes about past, present, and future (the underground as the embodied past, the air we breathe as the embodied present, and the horizon as the embodied future) in The Spell of the Sensuous. Thank you for you, and this.
Millie grazie for reading this and for your thoughts. Yes, I'm with - can we ever fully separate myth and reality? I doubt it, which is not a bad thing - it's how our magical realism minds work ultimatlely I think...
...but maybe possibly in certain ways and situations... or to at least know this about ourselves and each other helps, I think, so that we don't fight each other (or at least fight less) over conjectures... that's is my hope, anyway... on the flipside, there's totally place we want to let the mythic and mysterious run, too
That David Abram book sounds dreamy and amazing; I'd hadn't heard of it before. I'm sticking it on my book list now!
Appreciate you, your beautiful brain, and magical words, J.