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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’ - Margot Kahn ‪ 'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.' - Borrowed from someone, in a meeting

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 27d

I've written a piece about the connections of yoga & Feldenkrais - if you're interested please read & consider subscribing to my Substack. This topic is very much open for exploration. I'd love to hear your thoughts. wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/moshe-feld...

Moshe Feldenkrais, Selvarajan Yesudian and Yoga - An open-ended story in three parts

Part 1

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 9h

16th October is the feast day of St. Hedwig (1174-1243), patron saint of orphans. J.K. Rowling was inspired to name #HarryPotter’s owl Hedwig after this medieval saint. Her name comes from Scandinavian ‘Hedvig’ meaning a battle or female warrior. #FolkloreThursday #BookChatWeekly

Collage of two illustrations. Left: Medieval manuscript image of Saint Hedwig of Silesia holding two small figures, from the Hedwig Codex (Lubin, 1353), now in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Right: A detailed 19th-century natural history illustration of a Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) by Magnus von Wright from Svenska Fåglar (Swedish Birds).

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 9h

Really difficult and part of the process/experience, learning about it and discovering how to be with it. Believe me, I know!!

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 9h

Meditative practices and somatic practices are all-encompassing.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 22h

#rachelcusktogether

'The life that you live, in order to photograph it, is already a commemoration of itself.’

- Italo Calvino

Just came across this quotation and it reminded me of Outline.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 23h

'I am the man I am the mountain...' Jim Causley youtu.be/XeNsVEDXKgM?...

Jim Causley - I Am The Song (live at Downend Folk Club)

YouTube video by Downend Folk & Roots

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

Have you read Nan Shepherd's The Living mountain? Wonderful read.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

Love it - so true

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

'Ought's are always delusional.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

Age is an irrelevance.

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

'will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.' When you are in the moment, entirely immersed in being it, you run the risk of this happening. How can you be in it and still have that edge of awareness at the same time? Can you?

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

#rachelcusktogether
Yes yes yes!
'Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one's own destiny by what one doesn't notice or feel compassion for; that what you don't know & don't make the effort to understand...'1/2

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

We will find out, I do believe.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

#rachelcusktogether I love the comparison of her failure to notice Paniotis' feeling of life as a failure with the failure of the mountain to notice 'the climber that loses his footing and falls down one of its ravines.'

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

#rachelcusktogether
Poignant conversation with Paniotis, reflecting on the photo:
'It marked some difference between him & me, in that he was observing something while I, evidently, was entirely immersed in being it.' Two ways of living life. 'one of those moments...come to seem prophetic'

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. Maybe when 'fate' strikes, we're more able to see beyond it in time whereas when we're younger we take it at face value. So looking for, at and through people in different ways comes with age as you say.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

It was a toss-up. I desperately wanted to get out so braved my fear of heights and public attention. I remember it was such a relief when I escaped, a feeling I've had a few other times in my life. Those moments of lucky escape when you can't believe what just happened, & nearly happened.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

I already do - maybe that's why I've rapidly connected with the voice.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 2d

yes, those are my thoughts. Or life crashing in on her? These things and others. All will be revealed - I hope!

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 3d

Apologies!! I find tracing back the links on Blue Sky really time-consuming.....

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting. The lens for me from the beginning has been on her and only gradually is more emerging about what's going on. I sense a place beyond desperation, after turbulence. We'll see.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 4d

A wonderful contemplation on bookmarks.

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 7d

This is a lovely piece by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social. “A bookmark, however fragile, however durable, holds a paradox. It is both a pause and a continuation, both memory and forgetting.” draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 4d

I love this - thanks for sharing.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 4d

It seems like she just accepts being with whoever comes her way. It's like that's where she is in and with life at the moment.

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 4d

The feeling of being lost or exiled facing his back is poignant. 'His aged back seemed to maroon us both in our separate and untransfigurable histories.' It has to be an enigmatic back that creates this feeling, with an unknown front beyond it.

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