Looking at the posts this week, I notice a thread in most of them, a focus on one moment shifting into the next, drops of rain merging, puppies asking, “what’s next?” Karin, too, in her post (written in German) asks whether the witness is the same when the content has shifted? If it’s a new witness, how can it be a witness at all. Karin also writes that when this kind of observation proves too difficult, a focus on the breath is grounding. I have no doubt that Hayward would agree. Grounding us back into what, I wonder?<\/p>\n
Michael’s citation of Kafka (“a bird went looking for a cage”) makes me wonder: do we look for a cage so that we don’t have to face the freedom to fly? Do we perhaps imagine that without a cage, we could no longer sing? Kafka has a long (for him) story about Josephine, the last of the mouse singers. She sings, but she doesn’t sing very well. But the other mice accept her, and even find comfort in her pitiful squeaks.<\/p>\n
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Looking at the posts this week, I notice a thread in most of them, a focus on one moment shifting into the next, drops of rain merging, puppies asking, “what’s next?” Karin, too, in her post (written in German) asks … Continue reading