Movement
The meta-theme for day 2
What are lines?
Day two I have written a lot about lines. This includes, different ways to interpret lines, lines and edges, lines and writing, lines and thinking.
But really what am I doing when I write about lines?
It is about movement.
Day two is 2 - the dyad.
Now I must move from the meta-analysis of the self to something else.
How does this movement take place?
What is movement?
Heraclitus said “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man”
But then Parmenides thinks that movement is an illusion, and the eternal reality is unchanging.
I experience movement, so whatever may be the case for eternal reality, it is not as important to me at the moment as paddling a canoe down a river, or dancing by myself, in quarantine, to a song, watching the sun move through the sky, hearing the start of the rainstorm, and then suddenly silence - the end of the storm… and then the birds song.
This is all movement.
The last thing I did before COVID took hold was participate in this workshop at the poetry project with Yoshiko Chuma (image from this link).
It was an incredible workshop. And I even use some of the exercises with my kids in quarantine.
What happened in the workshop… Everything was movement, poetry was movement, everything was dance, walking was dance, sitting was dance, poetry was dance.
I say was, but I also mean is. It was and it is all these things. They change but they don’t change.
xo
Meredith