Cherice's Pieces

Bombarded by a steady stream of data, demands, and decisions, she felt fragmented—uncertain of herself and even less certain of her place in the current universe. She wished that a pause button would induce a state of suspended animation, creating a conceptual place outside the fabric of space-time where she could recompose herself. In that space she would collect and consider pieces of herself. She would sift, sort, synthesize, reshape, and revise her thoughts, her life, and herself there.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Something More

So, it's 10:15 p.m., I've been working on stuff for my comprehensive exams most of the day, haven't had dinner yet, and still have tons of work left to do before tomorrow. I don't dare even think about the rest of the week!

The phrase There's Gotta be Something More pretty much encapsulates my feelings about my present activities and life in general so well (with the exception of the coffee, the hitchhiking, and the wine), that I decided to take a few minutes to post it.

The song makes me happy, even though my circumstances don't. I'm soooo ready for a change, but it looks like that is going to be at least another 6 months in coming (at which point, of course, I'll be overwhelmed with it).

Friday, September 16, 2005

Of Understanding and Becoming

We are constantly creating our own realities, and what we know is the raw material for this creation. Through the recursive and reciprocal processes involved in drawing on that knowledge, it is transformed, becoming a tool (or a box of tools) that we use to carve out both a space and a place for ourselves in the world. As we take our experiences in those spaces and places back into ourselves, we are expanded, making it possible for us to make both space and place within ourselves to accommodate the world . . . In a very real sense, then, we become what we understand!