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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’ - Margot Kahn ‪ 'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.' - Borrowed from someone, in a meeting

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 25d

I've written a piece about the connections of yoga & Feldenkrais - if you're interested please read & consider subscribing to my Substack. This topic is very much open for exploration. I'd love to hear your thoughts. wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/moshe-feld...

Moshe Feldenkrais, Selvarajan Yesudian and Yoga - An open-ended story in three parts

Part 1

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 39m

#rachelcusktogether I love the comparison of her failure to notice Paniotis' feeling of life as a failure with the failure of the mountain to notice 'the climber that loses his footing and falls down one of its ravines.'

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 40m

#rachelcusktogether
Poignant conversation with Paniotis, reflecting on the photo:
'It marked some difference between him & me, in that he was observing something while I, evidently, was entirely immersed in being it.' Two ways of living life. 'one of those moments...come to seem prophetic'

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 50m

Interesting. Maybe when 'fate' strikes, we're more able to see beyond it in time whereas when we're younger we take it at face value. So looking for, at and through people in different ways comes with age as you say.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 12h

It was a toss-up. I desperately wanted to get out so braved my fear of heights and public attention. I remember it was such a relief when I escaped, a feeling I've had a few other times in my life. Those moments of lucky escape when you can't believe what just happened, & nearly happened.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 22h

I already do - maybe that's why I've rapidly connected with the voice.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 22h

yes, those are my thoughts. Or life crashing in on her? These things and others. All will be revealed - I hope!

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies!! I find tracing back the links on Blue Sky really time-consuming.....

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. The lens for me from the beginning has been on her and only gradually is more emerging about what's going on. I sense a place beyond desperation, after turbulence. We'll see.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful contemplation on bookmarks.

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 5d

This is a lovely piece by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social. “A bookmark, however fragile, however durable, holds a paradox. It is both a pause and a continuation, both memory and forgetting.” draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

I love this - thanks for sharing.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

It seems like she just accepts being with whoever comes her way. It's like that's where she is in and with life at the moment.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

The feeling of being lost or exiled facing his back is poignant. 'His aged back seemed to maroon us both in our separate and untransfigurable histories.' It has to be an enigmatic back that creates this feeling, with an unknown front beyond it.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

I can imagine

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t stand people who keep things from being used.”
- 'Diane Keaton: Her own best disputant' by Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker 1978

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

"I can’t stand it at those Los Angeles parties when people cover up the real grass with plastic because they think it’s going to wear out by being trodden on. Well, a lot of things get worn out by being trodden on,or even just stepped on-especially people-so why choose grass to protect?"D Keaton 1/2

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

'We see things not as they are but as we are.' - Anais Nin

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, definitely, I agree the childhood home was a place where I couldn't control how I felt; or rather I could predict how I would feel and still not control it.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

My job is a listener and I've always been more of a listener than a talker. I think it may have been Nemi who suggested listening can be a type of control. While I've though of silence and holding back from speaking as a form of control, I haven't thought of listening in that way but it's true.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

Scaring the passersby is funny with the hindsight of decades. At the time it was terrifying and ramped up my fear of having to spend the night in the cemetery.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

yes, his situation was worse than mine but mine is as vivid a memory. I can't forget how I got out because I had to climb a very high ladder over very high gates, a crowd gathered, and I have an intense fear of heights. I think I got over the gates more out of embarrassment and fear than courage.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly not unique to them. I recognise it in some life experiences. Perhaps the closest of relationships are the most susceptible to it. Disillusionment when things change.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes - I read that years ago, remembering liking it (I won't say loving it), and like so much I've read, remember nothing.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

yes, I've been in that place myself, and put myself at risk. But I was a lot younger. But interestingly it was when I was travelling. Being in a foreign country can change your perspective somehow.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

#rachelcusktogether 'I suppose...it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see...' I love the story about the two children's relationship and what she extrapolates from it, the importance of a shared vision.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

I had to climb a huge high ladder & scurried away relieved when I at last made it down the other side of the high gates. 'He called and shouted, to no avail...But I suppose I must have got out somehow...because I certainly didn't spend all night there, though I thought I might have to.'

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