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FIELD NOTES CATALOG

effortless inevitability ineffable inevitability ephemeral inevitability is what the rivers are the lakes are flowing through all of us the air like the water the water like the air as i waded in was i wading in the sky or in the lake was i wading in the entire earth? i waded everywhere and no where i walked on my feet, but the world was tilted, floated home, even the car floated...

Observations from 1999:

I had forgotten something that always used to mesmerize me when I was a little girl swimming in the pool: the lacy pattern of sunlight on the bottom. . . .

the water always contains the fire of the sun, no matter the season; the molecules absorb the light/qi and it's always there to give life and fire to anything and everything. it's coldness is a way of containing this qi/light so the water can transmit it.

When I stood at the edge of the lake both times, I simply had the sensation of everything being connected. Perceiving distance wasn't like perceiving something distant...