6/15/23
Returning 1
Not to the limitations of what had been there
But to places that could be thought of as the same
Yet somehow different from what I had imagined,
Not easily described, even decipherable
Calling somehow for reinvention of one’s energies, perceptions, and conceptions
Not allowing for glib labeling
But demanding invention, investment of meaning
Creating a context for experience of a new sort.
Finding a new vocabulary to actualize experience
In ways that move one to surprising descriptions
And lead to revelatory re-understandings.
6/16/23
Returning 2
Returning to a somewhere I hadn’t been
At least for a long time
To a place shrouded in the shadows of forgotten thought
Yet rich in the color of meaning
And the intricacies of half remembered detail.
This somewhere promises to create confusion, to instigate inquiry
To reveal things otherwise unobtainable.
This somewhere contains a richness
Not limited by its boundaries
For these seem penetrable
And promising meaning on their other side.
6/17/23
Returning 3
Well I’m here
Oddly here is to be discovered
At least in it’s implications
But within the limits of my first impressions.
How tantalizing are the hints of what might be
How fragmentary the things that the limits seem to imply
Partial, though vivid
Ambiguous yet freighted with possibilities.
To probe further requires intra- and extra- spection
Simultaneously.
Perhaps the world is not changed
But perhaps it is by virtue of the newly invented possibilities
And by virtue of the need to bring intra- ands extra- into engagement.
6/20/23
Returning 4
To a more settled sense of place
Even though vague in its contents and contexts
Other regions seem distant, less demanding definition
How best to exploit its riches, its particularities, its peculiarities.
To breathe deeply
To inhale its ambience
To identify with its elements, giving names, attributing associations
Finding meaning
Second thoughts, some persist others fade, more of those.
What remain gain in intensity
Call for salient relationships
Heightening contrasts among their emerging identities
Creating a vivid and rich resource.
6/22/23
Returning 5
To, still, what seems imagined, even conjured
Yet lying between me and deeper understanding.
As if the motion were still toward a center of some kind
A center from which I could reach out, firmly rooted.
My weight, though late arriving
Would allow a reaching out
Uncomfortably far, without loss of balance
With no regret about where I was
To learn without displacement, without diminishment of self
As I recognize the expanding region of reality.
Aaltoe's Blog 
June 28, 2023 at 5:26 pm |
Dad it is so great to see these today, thank you.