Air
You thought air would be about breathing,
right? Look at it more as the elemental which connects
with skin. Your skin finds its boundaries in what you
call air. Air is that Other, that outside, that external,
that possibly alien presence which forms you. As Earthlings,
anyway. It is the special something which makes this planet unique.
Possibly, then, it is the planet-as-you in a fuller
dimension?
Air is how the presence of others forms
you and your beloved. Others—not so much as people or even things
but—as that something which has been present as long as everyone
else has ever lived and. Air is what Living Earth is, as it is present.
Let’s air it out! What is really going on here?
Let’s get your story straight. When you work on air you’re
beginning to look at the common spaces, feelings, imaginings
you share with your beloved. So, to start, look at the space you share
with your beloved.
Let’s call it home—whether
owned, mobile or rented. Ownership is not the controlling notion here.
Ownership of the common space is, however. How do you and your beloved
share space? Sure, you divide it. This is mine. That is yours. That’s
okay. But consider something even as simple as how you share the bathroom
in the morning. Nowadays more and more folks have two or more bathrooms
in their homes, but there are still so many times, maybe when at a motel
or in a cabin, where you share, so how is it that you manage these moments?
How do you work yourself so that you fit? What is it that you chip off?
Or paint over? Or do you enjoy it at all? Those moments in interior
space which can be intimate or deadly!
Continue—Air
