🐛 Movement Thoughts

For more than a decade now, I have been using Professor Tim Ingold’s term “thinking with ” rather than, say, thinking about something. I do not think about love. I think with Aphrodite. Communalising the activity taps that infinite font of richness that she both governs and is. Same for Hephaestus and Psyche and Eros and Hermes and all the rest of ... See more

“The difference between motion and action.

Motion:

-talk to a personal trainer

-research your book idea

-explore different types of meditation

Action:

-do 10 squats

-write 1 sentence

-meditate for 1 minute

Motion feels like progress. Action is progress.”

Movement also has an ecology. In wild animals, movement is goal-directed , emotionally motivated , reflex coordinated and absolutely present . This is the natural ecology of movement, to which humans have introduced a new and sometimes destructive species: abstract thought .