I Remember
About this Piece
I find myself thinking about this design. Maybe because it looks and feels like the end of summer - The sense of light fading. The feel of greens cycling to tans and browns. - I can imagine it’s the first evening of the year that this child threw on a sweater before running through the last hours of the day’s light. It feels free and cozy and safe and wild in the way only sweet, fuzzy memories of childhood can.
My Musings
An indistinct figure
Fluid
In motion
Though not fast or frantic
Not mercurial or unknowable
A way of being wild with direction.
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What does it look like to be bounding forward to no specific place?
When your intention is clear and powerful but wholly unattached from arriving at a specific point?
To throw yourself completely forward with a joyful strength - that is somehow simultaneously unencumbered and weighted by purpose?
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I think my legs remember.
Muscles whose strength outmatched their coordination.
I think the tissue of my heart remembers beating with an enthusiasm laced with fear, which is its own divine anticipation.
I think my lungs know how to burn with pride and a twinge of chaos.
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The distinctly adult quest for balance between restriction and permission
Between restraint and abandon
Can feel foreign and forced and exhausting and ceaseless
Despite its good intent.
It leaves us wondering if there is a part
Perphaps one that is very quiet
Like a childhood memory that is more impression than a picture
That already knows how to live.
As this part whispers, it remembers in phrases.
I am alive.
I am real.
I am present.
I know how.
Activities
For my journalers: What does it mean to feel untethered yet grounded? When have you felt that way? Describe what it might look like, sound like, or feel like to experience this sensation in the present day.
For my somatic seekers: Create a playlist that feels like freedom, relaxation, and a dash of nostalgia. Listen to the music for a mindful walk or stretch break. You can also put the music on and explore moving/dancing in calming, freeing, or child-like ways - A "gentle dance party” if you will.
