Interpreting?
Am I, in my writing, interpreting teachers I find instructive? Have I been translating? What are the ways to translate and how might looking at that inform how I write?
:- Doug.
Archive for January 28th, 2024
From inside to inside
Speech is from inside my body to, first, surround you and then, enter you through the ears and perhaps whole body. My inside enters yours, forming us into one. So too, but more profoundly, presence unaccompanied by words operate, the stuff of glances and gestures and nearness. In the lap of grandmother too is a homebeing presence.
I am not quite there. We soak into the one hugging and embracing us. They at the same time soak into us.
Is there, more, an element of remembrance of the womb? We might hear the heart, the gurgle. Or we feel the purr of the kitten. Haptic is perhaps closer than sound. Lovers cuddle. We don’t know why. But we also know why. It is a body-knowing.
:- Doug.
