A blog is a place to write, reflect, regain understanding, articulate; a space for verbal dance, if you will. A movement that flows, from one thought to another - sometimes graceful, many times, not. Practice and fluidity come with time, so this is the mark of my commitment to the verbal dance profession.
As an introduction, the name I chose. Simple? Yes. Vague? Of course. More so though, an attempt to describe the movements (or topics, if you follow the imagery) I am choosing to reflect in my dance. For those I've lost already, I just want to give you a clearer picture of why I chose the name I did for this space - Glancing Beyond the Ledge. In my life, climbing (whether it be mountains, rocks, or the refrigerator in my mother's house) has always been an excellent time for thoughtful reflection. I don't know if it's in the journey, being at the top, or perhaps the traveling and planning of the whole excursion in and of itself; regardless, it somehow always allows me to engage in the moment and yet, in the midst of that, take time to step away and view the bigger picture. I think of times when I have been 2 or more pitches up on a climb, hanging, waiting. In those moments, I get to glance out over the ledge, beyond myself and into the vastness of the place I find myself. Often, the vastness of my heart seems to reflect off the view and back at me. It is in these places that I am alive; it is these moments that I regain direction, perspective, hope. So this verbal dance is a way of me, in this city I live in, to glance out and away, beyond the ledge, and then take what I see and put it here. I want my dance to reflect those moments from the ledge. And this is my first move.
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