CHORUS – WINDCHIME.WORLD
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CHORUS – WINDCHIME.WORLD
is it possible for an artwork to reshape the fear and bias we have developed over the last two pandemic years towards the idea of being interconnected? how can we embrace co-presence, shared affect, and forces of nature that move between us and bind us in a way that is celebratory, creative, or poetic??
from: https://windchime.world/
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It’s a living world. We can listen to it. We can open to it. It’s not a machine that we poke and press and push a button. It’s a mystery. And we meet the mystery, and then it talks.
On Being • Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
Jay Matthews added
Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth — our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structure to the howling of wolves and the honking of geese. To shut ourselves o ff from these other voices, to continue by ... See more
Claudia Chwalisz • Governing with the more-than-human world
Thomas added
Our crossing is a brief one, best spent bearing witness to all that we see: honoring what we find noble, tending what we know needs our care, recognizing that we are inseparably connected to all of it, including what is not yet upon us, including what is already gone. We are here to keep watch, not to keep.
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
intone the words with integrity, we must commit to respect the bountiful diversity of nature, to listen to the voices that make up the terrestrial and cosmic choir, to find the divine sparks that set the world ablaze with light.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
For the largest part of our species’ existence, humans have negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings, exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, with each textured surface and shivering entity that we happened to focus upon. All could speak, articulating in gesture and whistle and sigh a shifting web of meanin
... See moreDavid Abram • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
simon added
God, we may say, sings us into being. He breathes forth a poem, and the poem is us: galaxies, planets, molecules, continents, animals, people. It is a beautiful poem, a glorious song, and somehow we are alive and in the middle of it.
Brad East • Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry
LIBERATIONS
No performative bullshit – silence and space are friends, not enemies.
No protocols – we live and come from a different realm.
No shortcuts – the outcome is the fog // the process, motion, and change are clarity.
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