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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 · 21d

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

wellhousecircle.substack.com

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 7h

That's a great observation - thank you.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 7h

And where people are larger than life, as in the photo outside Clelia's building, and yet also 'smaller and deepr, more private and harder to articulate', as the terracotta woman in Clelia's apartment.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 8h

Here's the final part of the story of Moshe Feldenkrais, Selvarajan Yesudian & Yoga. If you're interested, please read my piece. Still trying to find out more about these connections, and would appreciate any input. wellhousecircle.substack.com/publish/post...

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 9h

yes, it would be great to know where and when

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Depth Noir @depthnoir.bsky.social · 19h

Gosia Janik

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 9h

I could not agree more.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

It is my firmest belief that all interesting people are, at least a little bit, on a quiet and constant hunt to find our own Secret Garden.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 10h

it's interesting, I've not identified it as a child-like impulse before but it is so obviously and now I can even remember it as a child. She's good with childlike impulses, eg the dropping something valuable repeatedly story, which can continue to adulthood. Conditioned behaviour or complexes.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not there yet but that's interesting. She captured the feeling of a plane journey so well and the conversations one may or may not get drawn into with one's 'neighbours'. Actually, gave me relief I don't fly nowadays!

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 10h

I'll make the time for this - feels timely!

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 20h

Me too. The emotional resonance of 'how long you can hold out' is so accurate when that person/thing doesn't arrive as planned. And then you get in the loop of chasing each other and never being in the same place at the same time.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 1d

This delightful new book by Cara Giaimo and Artist Vlad Stankovic includes a few familiar animals. Do you recognize any of these advice-givers from our ROV dives and videos? orionmagazine.org/article/dear...

Dear Sea Creature - Orion Magazine

Life advice from your favorite ocean dwellers

orionmagazine.org

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

These are lovely

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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

you were/are right! A great time to be reading it too, in connecting with other strands in life. Thank you so much for inviting me!

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

Disquieting - good word

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

yes, the voice commands interest, attention, respect - right away. The clear directness of the writing. No frills.

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

Her anecdotes are like parables often. I just started and am gripped.

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

#rachelcusktogether Wonderful parable of the child who drops what they value, suffers, and when it's returned drops it again. 'The memory of suffering...compelled them to repeat it, for the suffering was the magic that cause the object to come back...' Getting trapped in the pain-pleasure cycle.

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

#Rachelcusktogether The story of her son who leaves the place if you aren't there when he arrives and becomes lost, saying he couldn't find you. 'But the only hope of finding anything is to stay exactly where you are, at the agreed place. It's just a question of how long you can hold out.'

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

#Rachelcusktogether 'He began to ask me questions, as though he had learned to remind himself to do so, and I wondered what or who had taught him that lesson, which many people never learn.' So true.

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

#rachelcusktogether Just started Outline. I feel connected with the author's voice & how she perceives. Life's little experiences are the matter for insight - the eccentricity of her neighbour's bushy eyebrows 'made me answer him.The unexpected sometimes looks like a prompting of fate.'

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

I saw them both but neither made the same impression on me as those two Rossellinis. It's so interesting thinking back and noticing what you remember strongly and what you don't. For me it's more like 45 years!!

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

'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
I was uplifted to hear this comment in a meeting today.

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

Indeed! Thanks for that moment of light entertainment.