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P(r) – Bachelardian Reverie 1

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“…when will-o’-the-wisps–beings of very indeterminate sex–are to seduce men or women, they become precisely, according to the person to be led astray, flambettes (f.) or flamboires (m.).”  (Bachelard, 38)

Everything is changeable.  Nothing is black or white or either or.  Everything is everything.  There are no absolutes.  That a creature of folklore would need to be of a certain (opposite) sex to lure an unwary child away seems Freudian.  A human construct placed on an inhuman thing.  But is it a human construct? An animal construct.  We do  seem to work in pairs, for the most part.  (Un)matched pairs.  His and hers.  Yours and mine. Little statues on top of the cake in black and white.  Harlequin.  Hen and rooster shaped salt and pepper shakers.  Black and white.  Masculine and feminine.  Little Red and the Wolf.  Dark fur and tender white flesh.  Always fairy tales.

P(r) – Week 5 Log

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2.1.13–Friday

1/2 hr meditation

3 hrs Tai Chi Seminar

1 hr reading

2.2.13–Saturday

4 hrs Tai Chi Seminar

2 hrs reading

1 hr bellydance

2.4.13–Monday

6 hr reading

3 hr writing

2.5.13–Tuesday

1/2 hr Morning Pages

1/2 hr E-cises & meditation

3/4 hr bellydance

4 hr reading/research

2.6.13–Wednesday

1 1/2 hr writing

1 hr meeting with Sarah

2 hr reading

1/4 hr e-cises

2.7.13–Thursday

1/2 hr morning pages

2 hr reading

1 1/2 hr bellydance

1 hr walking meditation (attmepted)

1/2 hr WordPress

2.8.13–Friday 

2 hr read

1/2 hr morning pages

1 1/2 hr bellydance

 2.9.13–Saturday

1/2 hr morning pages

2 hr reading

1/2 hr mediation

 

P(r) is for Presence

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Field Study Proposal

In this project, entitled P(r) is for Presence the student intends to explore the connection between the body and the
mind and to put various theories on movement and meditation into practice in an effort to reconnect both to her
physical self and the world around her. At the end of the project, the student will have amassed a collection of
poetry and photographs, as well as a Holdrege-style research paper detailing her efforts and experiences during this
project.

Read the complete field study proposal (pdf)

Gallery of captured moments

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

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Bachelardian Reverie

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Poetry

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Poetry Observed

Term Paper Abstract

In our current culture of excess, materialism and gratification few people live in the moment, and even fewer live in their bodies. They live in the past and dream of the future. The closest they come to the present is thinking about what they want right now but even that is a dream of the future, never an acceptance of what is. Bodies are a nuisance, objects to be tamed and altered, decorated and abhorred, rarely appreciated for the extraordinary machines that they are or thanked for the physical and emotional abuse they endure daily. If our bodies could talk, what would they say? But our bodies do talk, all the time. They are constantly telling us about ourselves internally, and give us moment-to-moment updates on the spaces we inhabit, each moment shaped by the preceding moment and shaping the next. Our bodies put 24-hour news feeds to shame. What a wealth of real-time information is available to us if we would only listen. That is my aim: to learn to access the information my body holds, to become a presence in my body and in the present moment, not watching them both from the outside.

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