Comments on: (Re)Thinking Walking: Notes from the Summer So Far (Jess)

By: jess

jess — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:56:02 +0000

Thanks and love to you both, BFP and Mattilda.

And love and keeping.

Love,

Jess

By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:57:50 +0000

This is a beautiful walk:

“moments of outrageous beauty and moments of confusion and moments of failure and moments of remembering how “whole,” of course, means all of those things” — so hard to remember all of that, I would say…

“On a walk in my mind on a night I couldn’t sleep I realized how much I’d been hit by those hitting scenes in a movie I’d thought I was unaffected by a few hours before, and I breathed in the dark through old flinches and fears.”

This makes me think of something my friend Kara once asked about movies: how do you make people understand violence without making them experience violence?

And, of course:

“I’ve been feeling like other people’s reductive, binary understandings of gender are being mapped onto me, and it’s frustrating to have to muster the energy to respond to that, and keep responding, and keep.”

Thank you for keeping.

Love –
mattilda

By: bfp

bfp — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:58:46 +0000

Do I believe these things I’m always writing (to myself, to you) about movement? Do I trust my body at all?

I have been wondering this myself lately. Over and over and over again….do I really believe this? Do i really trust this? Do I really think…all this time I thought the internet could do one thing–and these past few weeks has shown me that it can’t. so now, I pause and reflect–what CAN it do? What can *I* do with it?

It’s exciting and disappionting and scary and *NEW* and …

beautiful post, jess, thanks for sharing…