ecologies of practice, place and body
Slow, immanent, seeping permeation of relation with place and each other (whisper, ripple, shimmer, rumble); nourished by deep listening and field work.
[I confide in your texture]
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ecologies of practice, place and body
Slow, immanent, seeping permeation of relation with place and each other (whisper, ripple, shimmer, rumble); nourished by deep listening and field work.
[I confide in your texture]
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Reflections
Caring for a place, and feeling agency, capacity. How this is generated by the act of walking, stopping, looking, the layers in the earth, history, time - you feel it in a different way, not isolating or separating yourself from it. How this can open up the urge to help, to care for these ecologies...
The Creek said, “People often judge me for the way I look, but they made me this way.”
Not just ‘I am caring for the creek’ but: ‘I am part of this place; it is part of my life + world; the creek is a way of caring for myself and the many intermediate groups of beings that we share, not an act of the empowered to the unempowered - the knowledges + wisdoms of the creek teach me, create me - we co-create.’
What can I do to better care for this place? Perhaps building a better relationship with nature is a good place to start. Maybe attempting to empathise with nature and better understand its perspective could be incredibly beneficial in developing a plan to enact change. What would it feel like to suffocate under the weight of a concrete city? How would it feel to be a trash deposit? What would it feel like to be cut down from the ankle? To catch fire and burn for days? What if, without warning, my home was destroyed?
How can I create a position of special joy and pleasure in making
through the aches and sorrows of my body
a place for this to be exactly as it is
in my body
I make it
I open it up and breathe into it
and the sounds blend and layer and hum
the ritual of it
crying into it
loving it