| So this is the first of my “commitments to self” to post here somewhat regularly! I have decided to model this somatic perspective and search for it in the everyday! So today it is creating-from-scratch! I got up early to make lemon current scones and watermelon lemonade from scratch to share with a friend who was coming by to watch a webinar about fascia and bodywork. What a great combo—something as basic as watching someone reorient connective tissue— and manually turning flour, butter, eggs, currents, and lemon zest into something so deliciously edible! I must admit that with the temps at near 90 degrees turning an oven to 400 degrees for even 30 minutes seemed totally unenvironmentally conscious. I could have walked up to the Caribou coffee shop and purchased fresh scones. And CUB foods probably had a decent-enough version of watermelon lemonade, but I couldn’t resist the sensation of gathering all the ingredients and making everything myself from step 1! Such a sense of physical accomplishment to create a real consumable something from basic ingredients. Earlier this week I was creating from scratch in a movement improvisation workshop. It is always fascinating to me how I can walk into a space with a few other dancers and simply using the raw materials of our individual movement sensibilities—create a really satisfying moving experience! It feeds my soul as much as the scones and lemonade fed my body. |
-Sherry