LIFE LOOKING BACK AT US
Excerpted from Vermont Views Magazine … In Between
I sit here today in the streaming sunshine, warm and well enough. The cup of green tea in my hands becomes a meditation on just being here, being present. I am amazed at the fluid layers of our lives, what each thing is tied to in memory in this current moment … the future, the past, the present, all one if we can bear to stand still long enough to experience it. A brown oak leaf on my table reaching in three directions, left, right, and ahead/behind, as a single manifestation, helps me understand this idea and I pause at its simple beauty.
Recently I was in my print shop, working alone, as I do recently, and I was setting by hand the letters that comprised a poem. Letter by letter, space by space, the object took form and I found myself observing self within both my present mundane activity and as a person watching to see where the work was going. Could I complete this with the skill that I knew had been there when I worked in a team? I remember chewing gum with intensity to ease the stress and then recalled seeing my partner Dan Carr, when I first met him, smoking his unfiltered Camels, and I thought of how if I was a smoker, I would have been chain smoking that afternoon, as I struggled to get it right.
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