tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713026153139997437.post6844583360013612881..comments2023-12-24T08:35:20.551-05:00Comments on Do you see?: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713026153139997437.post-38079083910162398322009-07-25T15:39:13.293-04:002009-07-25T15:39:13.293-04:00If I were a responsible commenter, I would first i...If I were a responsible commenter, I would first inform myself about chakras and their cultural significance. But I think I prefer just letting vague, alien-seeming associations drift from my tongue. Maybe that would be akin to a strange arcing and merging of sensibilities. I don't know.<br /><br />Besides the beautiful, connotative word-pictures you've written, I am taken by the sense of centering our protagonist experiences. An intense state of being, not ordinary, thus isolating her from everydayness and "sleeping" people. Between breaths, she discerns scents of spiritualized time. She is not taken out of herself, as transcending anything; rather, she is cohering deeply INTO herself and is breathing in shocked, fragrant moments of realness.<br /><br />And in this condition of being, she partakes of something like the Jungian archetypes; she grasps a-hold of the ancient cultural chain, connecting her and anchoring her to Woman...to the organic layers behind her in other time.<br /><br />Or maybe I just need to lie down with an ice pack on my head until this blathering fit of mine passes over. :)Tim Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02077264442946829918noreply@blogger.com