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Williams writes, “There is no defense against an open heart …in dialogue with wildness…I believe that out of an erotics of place, a politics of place is emerging…rooted in empathy.”
except I'm still having trouble just *being here,* am still time traveling...
to last spring, when the bundt cakes were in action here.
I returned to my new site today,
but got quickly bored.
The vista that excited me last week
(OUT from under all those branches...)
this week seemed empty.
But being in that space took me back in time...
to May Day, when the Cheshire Cat and Tweedledum were @ my site...
Is Wonderland any use to us here-and-now?
Last week, I sounded retreat.
I was SO DONE with my cozy retreat:
Too closed-in, too tight, too neat.
I sought out another seat.
One with a vista.
.
And movement.
So the pace is slow...
seeking retreat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdRBKcqDwBE&feature=youtu.be
sounds interminable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=077C5DmOHUM&feature=youtu.be
succor unavailable.
sounding retreat.
tajiboye--
when I visited your site on Tuesday morning,
I was surprised to see that it was circled by flags.
This reminded me of an exhibit I saw in Central Park a few years ago, Christo's "The Gates,"
This is so cheesy I can hardly stand it, but...it's what happened.
Tuesday morning, I'd gotten up early, seen all the snow, and was sure I'd get to spend the day watching it from the sofa. So I was a little grumbly when I learned that I had to hoof it out to Bryn Mawr. Grumblier when the trains from Center City were running slow...so, en route, I wrote up my description of my site sit: "The snow around my site was unbroken, and lovely, full of sparkles. I couldn't bear to break it, to deface it with my footsteps....so I decided to respect the space, and skip my visit this week."
Unfortunately, when I got off the train, trudged my way into campus, and to my site,
So--urged on by all your reports of the miserable cold--I took the opportunity of Monday's relative warmth to make my first visit to my site sit (good thing I did, since the Polar Vortex has now arrived!). Anyhow, the first thing I noticed was the discarded paper cup. The second thing I noticed was the noise. Here you go: http://youtu.be/ac1I-PDRtos
The site is really lovely--look @ how it looks! But the noise...dunno if I can stay.
Mark Lord (who is using his sabbatical to, among other things, meditate)
tells me that my task is to rise above this. I'm not sure, ecologically thinking, that it is.
Or that I can....
My "scape" is #30 on the Bryn Mawr College Tree Tour:
A student in my ESem told me about it last semester--that it's labeled "Serenity" but is known (among you all?) as "the pot tree."