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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Granular space in the Big Open. I like it. Although to get
the full impact, I suspect we really have to talk about space/time, especially
when wandering through Montana and North Dakota. It is not just space, but
rather space flowing in time -- on a very different time scale than our daily
lives, but time none the less. And Yes we may experience it as "timeless" -- or
space standing still -- but you are so, so right. It is all in motion. Coming
and going in a very big Now. Poetics for sure, but I also think we have the
opportunity to experience the same seemless flow of time/space every time we
Open Space, and our capacity to fully appreciate that Open Space is directly
related to sensing the time/space flow. I guess an experieince such as you had
Ralph is so overpowering that you really can't miss it -- as all too often we
may miss the same experieince in the hubbub of the standard OS.
Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Harrison</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Harrison Owen<BR>7808 River Falls Dr.<BR>Potomac, MD
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 23, 2006 10:55
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Granular space</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=Times><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Back to an
earlier train of thought...<BR><BR>I always thought I understood what we meant
by “Have a granular day”.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Ralph
Copleman<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>* *
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