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When I started this project, I intended to go to various far flung, ‘wild’ places throughout the quarter and do long, dedicated somatic explorations. Instead, it felt more appropriate to stay close to home. As the lessons that came from… Continue Reading →
Tiny white butterflies flutter alongside me for the entire walk. At times I wonder if somehow the same butterfly had decided to travel with me, but I know they are different butterflies, that the 8 or 9 miles I end… Continue Reading →
It is something of a shock that it is already midway through week 8 and time to start wrapping up, finalizing, making a Powerpoint, sending material to my mentor and writing my final self evaluation. I feel like I have… Continue Reading →
The Wikipedia definition of somatics is this: “Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. The term is used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma, or “the body… Continue Reading →
For my second somatic exploration, I went alone to Capitol Forest to walk amongst the trees. I usually hike with my dog, but knew that her excitement, noise and (failed) attempts at chasing birds and squirrels would be a distraction…. Continue Reading →
I’ve been putting off posting a fourth blog entry because I wanted to post some of the writing I’ve been doing, rather than just an update. But here it is the end of week 5 and I don’t have anything… Continue Reading →
When Allan and I decided to do this project, we wanted our inquiry into the subject of animism in the anthropocene to include knowledge gained by means beyond purely rational thought. If animism is a way of being that comes… Continue Reading →
Dark Ecology is a sprawling, labyrinthine book full of loops and spirals. Such wild disorder makes it hard to write a response paper in any linear fashion, and this is appropriate to the text. One of the central themes… Continue Reading →
As I’ve been trying to explain to people over the past weeks what exactly it is I’m going to be doing this quarter, I find myself opening my mouth to explain these terms and coming up blank, overwhelmed by questions… Continue Reading →