Granular space

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

Ralph, thanks for letting us ride this train of thought and then hop on the
bike with you.    
 
I recently returned from Kaua'i where I had many opportunities to feel into
the open ocean space of expanded nows- more fluid than granular and a great
treat to my Arizona spirit!
 
Namasté,
 
Christine
 
Christine Whitney Sanchez
KAIROS Alliance Inc.
2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue
Phoenix, AZ  85048
480.759.0262
www.kairosalliance.com <http://www.kairosalliance.com/> 
 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ralph
Copleman
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:55 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Granular space


Back to an earlier train of thought...

I always thought I understood what we meant by “Have a granular day”.

To me it’s about slowing to feel grains of experience one at a time, and not
to let time and life slip by so as to miss many fine (and important)
distinctions.  I think of it sometimes as squeezing bits of sand through the
hourglass one by one, and carefully.

I have just come home from a 500-mile bicycle ride through remote parts of
Montana and North Dakota (USA).  This completes the second of my two-part
odyssey of riding my bicycle across the country (which is very, very, very,
very big).   There are wide stretches of central and eastern Montana that
provide the opportunity to ponder “granular” for long periods as one pedals,
pedals, stroke after stroke, mile after mile after mile.  The landscape
remains the same as it endlessly changes.  The buttes, the prairies and the
crumbled landscape they call “Missouri Breaks”make the same changes all the
livelong day.  The wind and the water of the eons have written the book on
granular, this is for sure.

The “wide open spaces” as the American West has often been called, are still
there.  It’s no longer the frontier of previous times, but the locals still
refer to the region as “the Big Dry”, or the “Big Empty”, and even the “Big
Open”.  It’s granularized open space alright, but it is not still or
unchanging.  I had the thought, as I rode along, often in solitude, that
open spaces of all kinds are changing all the time, that “expanded nows” are
not static.  They’re dynamic in a sort of stillness.  Space, like time,
unfolds, like music over the measures.  I can, if I pay attention, hear the
melody and feel the grains.

Ralph Copleman

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