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 ==== Giving Ourselves Over ====
-by Ron Broglio
+**Ron Broglio**
 Attunement means giving ourselves over to another and with the resistance, insistence, and weight of bodies. These bodies feel the give and take of being in a place with another. A hand may press into the flesh of another and feel the yielding and the taut resistance of muscle and bone. Another body may reach out to meet our own and call for a new posture and orientation. The sensation of heat moving from skin to a cool rock on a winter day. The prick of a needle along the smooth ridge of a paddle cactus. We give ourselves over to thinking at a register far different from a self-conscious I and the angular forms of reason. Bodies in a plenum abiding, tethered to the world.
-There is a temporal plenum or rather many in which we are enfolded. Touch opens us to time. 6,000 feet below the rim of the Grand Canyon, one can run fingers across towering flat surfaces of rock layered in a black varnish of eons in which the stone surfaces have breathed air that chemically transforms their coloring. Here in what geologists call the Vishnu layer of planetary sediment, a hand across the unmoving surface touches a mass of earth that has lived a billion years into now. Here the rock bears forth a long now which in our touching takes us elsewhere in time. Here in time but in a duration beyond the registers of an all too human thought. With such touch, we are in a now that engulfs us with a duration before and after humans.
+{{:dust_and_shadow:giving-over.jpg?300 |}}There is a temporal plenum or rather many in which we are enfolded. Touch opens us to time. 6,000 feet below the rim of the Grand Canyon, one can run fingers across towering flat surfaces of rock layered in a black varnish of eons in which the stone surfaces have breathed air that chemically transforms their coloring. Here in what geologists call the Vishnu layer of planetary sediment, a hand across the unmoving surface touches a mass of earth that has lived a billion years into now. Here the rock bears forth a long now which in our touching takes us elsewhere in time. Here in time but in a duration beyond the registers of an all too human thought. With such touch, we are in a now that engulfs us with a duration before and after humans.
 Attuning to a time beyond the human calls for a new posture, a new body architecture. Posture is a moment by moment conversation by which we find a fittedness. Posture is a pathfinding with the world. Some of these paths are well worn—the feel of a familiar keyboard and its responsiveness to slight pressures by the tips of the fingers, the resistance of bicycle pedals in the push of legs and feet as the body and machine move along a street, the nimble threading of shoelaces, the small gestures of hand, arm, and smiling face in greeting a friend.