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Walking Across Town. Blinded By the Light.
Mid July in Manhattan.
I step out of the Metro North car onto the platform, and walk down the tunnel in Grand Central. There’s zero transition from the air cooled train car @ 69° F to This. The body is swallowed by dampness, cool to not cool, Bam. The softness of the pressed shirt turns to less soft, to not soft, to moist, to sticking to the chest. Feet, are choking from their leather wraps, swollen from weight gain (6.3 lbs in less than 30 days) – chafing is coming, oh, it’s coming, by days end, or sooner. There will be blood.
I exhale little puppy breaths to pass the heat, trying to keep cool. Fail.
It’s 6:28 a.m. Tourists mingle in midtown, coalesce around the network TV studios and their Morning Shows – holding their cups of coffee, hoping to spot a celebrity, or better yet, get a cameo for the folks back home. Hi, Jane from Iowa! Continue reading “Walking Across Town. Blinded By the Light.”
Lightly child, lightly (2)
Hello! Gian Lorenzo Bernini?
Sculpture or architecture?
Sculpture, of course. Every time.
It’s the fourth aisle on the right, top left shelf.
Do you know The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa?
Yes, I’ve seen the pictures.
Oh, no, no, no, no. You must see it in the flesh. It’s incredible. He makes tons of marble simply float. Defies gravity with beauty. Destroys logic with emotion.
~ Billy to Bella Brown, from This Beautiful Fantastic (2017)
Notes:
- Trailer for This Beautiful Fantastic (2017)
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Saturday Morning
I uncross my legs
to find, with a bare foot,
that sun has warmed the stone.
I partake of the sun.
*
And the stone.
— Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of Dispatches from an Unfinished World
Credits:
- Photo Source: archidave with fallen (Detail of a marble sculpture of Eve at the Fountain by E. H. Bailey)
- Poem: Hidden Sanctuary
But your attention is focused, your vision becomes crystal clear
As soon as the stressful event occurs, it triggers the release of the cascade of hypothalamic, pituitary, and adrenal hormones — the brain’s stress response. It also triggers the adrenal glands to release epinephrine, or adrenaline, and the sympathetic nerves to squirt out the adrenaline-like chemical norepinephrine all over the body: nerves that wire the heart, and gut, and skin. So, the heart is driven to beat faster, the fine hairs of your skin stand up, you sweat, you may feel nausea or the urge to defecate. But your attention is focused, your vision becomes crystal clear, a surge of power helps you run — these same chemicals released from nerves make blood flow to your muscles, preparing you to sprint.
~ Esther M. Sternberg, The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
Notes:
- Quote – Brain Pickings.
- Sculpture – Young-Deok Seo (“Meditation #15, Stainless chain, 130x70x200 cm, 2014) via My Modern Met