re-creating belonging
belonging is an active relationship with the human and non-human world that we inhabit. It is a multidimensional relationship that weaves us into being.
language, thought, feelings, actions; all of it shapes this relationship.
We enact the way we relate to the world. Our way of being; being with, being in the world.
In most of us this is full of contradictions. Our edges are thick and rough.
In most of us, to relate to the world we inhabit is to differentiate from the world we inhabit.
It's to build layers of separation and distinction by opposition.
It is intrinsic to all what exists to be in interdependence.
Everything that is, is in constant redefinition at electrochemical levels.
The ecology and economy of being.
Language and thought live in the cosmology of our minds.
They grow from our ontological premises.
Our premises on who we are.
Our premises on who we are not.
Adjectives like boxes, cages, towers and walls.
We make sense of ourselves as we delimit our existence.
Shrinking.
Expanding.
Expanding the cosmology of our minds.
Longing to belong.
A search for belonging is a search for identity.
A re-vision of our edges; an exploration on how permeable they are.
Longing for a sense of identity that will holds us from within,
most of us cut out our natural reciprocity with the world.
Most of us trade the active ecology and economy of being by an inner tyranny, keepings us from merging -thus fixed, defined and isolated.
To be by being we must remain permeable, present.
