The last few days, IMcG's been on my mind. His thesis about the differences between the hemispheres and the tendency for the literal and loud-mouthed left, with its hubris and grasping ambition, to take the lead over the right with its understanding of the emotional, the embodied, the implicit, the whole of being and the sense of between-ness, feels to me so important that I want to imbibe it, absorb it and create some way of expressing these right-hemi priorities in my course.
But I find it so hard to express what I feel - of course I do... what I feel is almost ineffable and is on the outer edges of my talkative left-hemi's understanding.
Today I was talking with an Italian client and trying to explain that I couldn't decide whether the English text of a film should be in the present or the past tense. I was just talking this stuff and he understood... I mean, he understood the confusion and the ambivalence. The generosity of the man to listen and accept and talk the decision for himself. It made me happy that I could express an uncertainty and that that was OK.
See? What does this mean? What is the importance of that? I find in life these small flashes of significance and they feel bigger than you'd think. The boy reaching down, unthinking, to stroke the dog. The lad watching the swans. The smiling lady going to seek out flowers on a bright day. The boys on bikes shouting, 'Thank you!' when I waved them ahead. Water drops on a swan's breast. The robin in the garden and the brave squirrel. Thoughts of Daisy in my arms. The cat stretching in front of the fire and the dog twitching in his dreams.
How can you quantify this? This 'being', this 'presence', this 'between-ness'?
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