Category Archives: moving, breathing, feeling

Oct22

when the road ahead is not clear

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My friend Carol Burnes sent me this.  I think that when the road ahead is not clear, when we do not know how this current political/personal situation will turn out, when we are afraid, then to not tell our truth is a lie.  Thank you Carol.

This is fan mail
I love the political commentary
I forwarded it to a few folks
you gave it such an interesting context.
You get to have a position and what
was purely wonderful was
how you, as a movement specialist
see things that many would miss
and you gave us that
I do not feel it was a political rant
just a genuine response to the times
and what is going on –
and that election and those two people
are what is going on right now
So, I would love to have your
spontaneous, uncurbed responses
to your two weeks in NH
what you see and feel
how people respond etc etc
You are a political committed person
and your responses are genuine.
I would rather hear them than only
about the foliage
so to speak.
to go to NH at this time for your purpose
and make no mention
would seeem like cutting your tongue out.
lve, cb
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Oct21

here I am

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Beautiful sunny drive up to New Hampshire today.  I am staying with the same wonderful family that let me camp in their guest house in 2008.  Got settled in and am gearing up for a full day tomorrow.

There is something about completely shifting my rhythm, my focus and my geographic that is unsettling in a good way.  No cats, dogs, horses, wife, children.  Odd and lonely.  The daily rituals of home suspended.  A part of that I like – the way that I cannot find myself in familiarity.  The intensification of a single, obsessive focus for a short period of time. Figuring out how to stay balanced in that turmoil.  Listening inwardly while maintaining a sharply delineated outer focus.

My friends Annie and Stan are on the road too.  Stan is in New Hampshire on weekends, and both of them will go to Ohio on November 1.  More tomorrow.  For tonight, dinner and “The Good Wife,”  followed by a good book.

More tomorrow. . .

Oct19

finding the current

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May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back,

the way it is with children

                                                       Rainer Marie Rilke

I had a friend unsubscribe from my blog list today.  It was because of the political content.  She did not want to read it in the morning in her inbox.  I get that.  We are inundated, we are overwhelmed, we are disturbed, we are invaded by the news.  Aall of that is heightened exponentially during election season.  i am not exempt.

The day of the second debate, I was so skittery and amped up I could hardly function.  Not a good thing.  So I have decided not to politicize in the blog anymore.  I am going on the road to work for the president.  I will be in New Hampshire for two weeks.  But what I will be reporting will not be political, or at least not partisan.

The challenge I am giving myself is to sit with the turbulence, to find little moments of grace, to witness and write from the heart.  Come along.

Oct19

movement tells

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As a movement analyst, it has been interesting to observe Willard Mitt Romney.  There is a clear contradiction in his movement behavior – a kind of subservient aggression – a simultaneous retreat and advance in his body that is a give away to the contradiction in his wildly wavering positions.  As I watched him advance on Candy Crowley during the last debate, I was surprised by the postural retreat in his body at the same time that he was propelling himself forward with self-righteous aggression.  Romney appears posturally brittle and lacking in flow.  By contrast, the president expresses a more free flowing, connected and articulate core.

The other day I wrote about the diagnosis a horse would make of the two candidates.  Because horses are so attuned to our movement, and to the coherence or lack of in our emotional-physical expression, they can immediately sort out the truth-tellers from the liars.  They also sense danger from predators, particularly when there is a clear discordance between inner and outer.