We’ll be gathering, with reflection, somatics, and sharing in community, around a short piece from Eli Clare:

“I never believed in cure exactly, even as I yearned to be nondisabled. But I did want to know what happened between my brain and my tremoring hands, slurring tongue, stumbling feet – an explanation beyond the story of brain cells dying. The physical therapists and orthopedists never gave me a satisfactory answer. I imagined electrical storms and collapsing bridges, a twelve-year-old turning my body-mind into a metaphor, out-of-control and broken. I didn’t liken my tremors to sunlight stuttering through wind-tossed trees, my slurs to an earthworm curling over itself, my stumbles to the erratic rhythm of a pileated woodpecker drumming a tree.”

Where do we find the rhythms of our own body-minds in the natural world? What can we learn from those dance partners?

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