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| <blockquote>Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. | <blockquote>Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. |
| –Marcus Aurelius, Meditations</blockquote> | <cite>Marcus Aurelius, Meditations</cite></blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>Enlightenment is a dodgy proposition. It all depends how much you want to risk. Not money so much as personal safety, precious time, against a very remote long shot coming in. It happens, of course. Out of the dust, the clouds of sweat and breath, the drumming of hooves, the animal rises up be-hind the field, the last you’d’ve expected, tall, shining, inevitable, and passes through them all like a beam of morning sunlight through the spectral residue of a dream. But it’s still a fool’s bet and a mug’s game, and you might not have the will or the patience. | <blockquote>Enlightenment is a dodgy proposition. It all depends how much you want to risk. Not money so much as personal safety, precious time, against a very remote long shot coming in. It happens, of course. Out of the dust, the clouds of sweat and breath, the drumming of hooves, the animal rises up be-hind the field, the last you’d’ve expected, tall, shining, inevitable, and passes through them all like a beam of morning sunlight through the spectral residue of a dream. But it’s still a fool’s bet and a mug’s game, and you might not have the will or the patience. |
| –Thomas Pynchon, Against the day</blockquote> | <cite>Thomas Pynchon, Against the day</cite></blockquote> |
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| **Part Two, Squiggles:** For this part of the exercise, slowly walk freely in any direction and move around objects and terrain in sensitivity to the landscape and your body. There is no set line nor direction and you can move is squiggles, curves, and any shape that corresponds to how your body feels along the landscape. Do this for 8 minutes. Then turn toward the designated starting space and take 8 minutes to return using the same and squiggle method of responding to the landscape. Duration of part one is 16 minutes. | **Part Two, Squiggles:** For this part of the exercise, slowly walk freely in any direction and move around objects and terrain in sensitivity to the landscape and your body. There is no set line nor direction and you can move is squiggles, curves, and any shape that corresponds to how your body feels along the landscape. Do this for 8 minutes. Then turn toward the designated starting space and take 8 minutes to return using the same and squiggle method of responding to the landscape. Duration of part one is 16 minutes. |
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| Alignment in tentacular worlding must be a seriously tangled affair! | Alignment in tentacular worlding must be a seriously tangled affair! |
| –Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble</blockquote> | <cite>Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble</cite></blockquote> |
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| **Reflections:** What differences did you notice between the lines and squiggle walking? How did your body, mind, attention, or awareness of the landscape change? Draw how your walks feel and write down your observations. | **Reflections:** What differences did you notice between the lines and squiggle walking? How did your body, mind, attention, or awareness of the landscape change? Draw how your walks feel and write down your observations. |
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| <blockquote>One of the things that the 19th century has taught me is that you can’t dream for justice, you can’t dream for reconciliation, you can’t dream for any kind of resolution in the future. That kind of teleological view towards the future is not a very helpful one. It’s much more useful to think about it in terms of present-day energies. | <blockquote>One of the things that the 19th century has taught me is that you can’t dream for justice, you can’t dream for reconciliation, you can’t dream for any kind of resolution in the future. That kind of teleological view towards the future is not a very helpful one. It’s much more useful to think about it in terms of present-day energies. |
| –Eddy Kent</blockquote> | <cite>Eddy Kent</cite></blockquote> |
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| Scientists estimate that the range of joshua trees within Joshua Tree National Park by the end of the century will be 10% of what that range currently is. Joshua trees are naturally moving northward and upward in elevation: cooler and wetter. But the question is: will the yucca moth migrate with the joshua tree? If it won’t, then what happens?" | Scientists estimate that the range of joshua trees within Joshua Tree National Park by the end of the century will be 10% of what that range currently is. Joshua trees are naturally moving northward and upward in elevation: cooler and wetter. But the question is: will the yucca moth migrate with the joshua tree? If it won’t, then what happens?" |
| – Sam Schipani, How a Tree and Its Moth Shaped the Mojave Desert</blockquote> | <cite>Sam Schipani, How a Tree and Its Moth Shaped the Mojave Desert</cite></blockquote> |
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