Pixie,
Thanks for caring enough to write from your centre today.
> Wonder if there is life beyond.....
Big Mmmmmm;-)
Pixie, between you and me I just put one of my few pop CD's on to write
this. It's called "Shine" by Gabrielle;-)
You know Pixie, I was with a friend in a hospital a few weeks ago, a chest
unit in Oxford, we had to go from one unit to another, "hither and yon" as
a poet friend of mine would express it. There were people in chairs and
people in beds, porters nurses and doctors, there were corridors and
corridors of human illness in unwellbeing, there was oncology, pathology,
this *****ology and that ******ology but no ontology, no cosmology, not
tautology...that I saw...or did I? There was one old chap who came
rattling down the corridor and was unceremoniously dumped in the waiting
room and he was plastered in enormous bottles of gas and a mask and tubes,
tubes everywhere. I went up to this frail old gentleman and showed and
read him a passage I was reading..." -If we take a mutual enfoldment view
of life seriously, it initially results in a sense of vertigo due to the
collapse of what we supposed to be sure and stable foundations. But rather
than sweeping the sense of groundlessness under the rug by once again
pitching the internal and external against each other (which we already
know will not work) we need to delve deeper into this sense of
groundlessness and follow through all of its implications philosophically
and experientially" (Verela) You looked puzzled and smiled back at me.
Sorry, my mistake,-- he looked puzzled and smiled back at me.
Just between you and me Pixie, I have a theory, it's thin at one end, fat
in the middle and thin at the other end. My theory states that people see
"thinglies" under this carpet all the time while they are busy-- sweep,
sweep, sweeping themselves along.
"Centers may overlap but they should not completely lose their identities.
Strong centres are centers that have been reinforced by other centers and
intensified by structure preserving transformations." snip : "In the
growth of a flower, there is a field effect taking place, caused by
chemical gradients in the sap. As one center forms -- the position of the
flower heads -- leaves, stems, and other parts of the flower then
rearrange themselves to support the flower with sap, and in the process
create a field effect which actually intensifies the center." and
"Whenever (such) a center is formed, successive structure preserving
transformations will call out smaller centers around and within it, which,
by virtue of their spatial positioning, are arranged in just such a way
that it strengthens the first center. As the architecture unfolds and more
structure preserving transformations are applied, this will happen with
all the centers in the system."
-- On the Nature of the Nature of Order -- Christopher Alexander
You try it...go up to an older dying person and you smile Pixie and you
see what happens, but don't write about it, and not here either. Keep it
inside you, let it grow like a flower. Let is slowly fall away, fall
into...
"We find ourselves as human beings here and now in the praxis of living,
in the happening of being human, in language languaging, in an a priori
experiential situation in which everything that is, everything that
happens, is and happens in us as part of our praxis of living. In these
circumstances, whatever we say about how anything happens takes place in
the praxis of our living as a comment, as a reflexion, as a reformulation,
in short, as an explanation of the praxis of our living, and as such it
does not replace or constitute the praxis of living that it purports to
explain. Thus, to say that we are made of matter, or to say that we are
ideas in the mind of God, are both explanations of that which we live as
our experience of being, yet neither matter nor ideas in the mind of God
constitute the experience of being that which they are supposed to
explain."
-- Ontology of Observing, Maturana --
A friend, the one who introduced me to Alexander's ideas, also writes here
and I am indebted to him for that little path out from this propriocentred
thingliness;-) he likes "wwu's" so here for him and you too a few lines
from the centre of a poem, if you say you like it Pixies I will gladly
send you the other 'centres' waiting at either side;-)
<- The formal influence of the will
the wayward influence of the heart ->
That's all;-)
Love,
Love,
Love,
Andrew
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