Footprints in the Windsm # 2376
We don’t get to meeting often with our family members, especially those with whom we spend most of our evenings. This is because we do not have with them, in Dewey’s term (from his Art as Experience), experiences—something that “runs its course to fulfillment” (p 35)—with these persons. Instead, “we drift. . . . One thing replaces another, but does not absorb it and carry it on. . . . [These times] are anesthetic.” (p 40) There is no clear resolution nor delineation. There are no edges like in conversation or meeting. What we lack is a date night, a light over an isolated table and event. We lack pattern and structure. We lack appreciating, receiving, and enjoying. We lack noticing.
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