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29/11/2014

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Sounds cheeky, doesn't it?

Arnold Mindell uses 'flirt' to mean some hint, some impulse, some piece of knowing beneath (or pervading) what he so usefully calls 'consensual reality'. Sometimes he refers to what 'bugs' us. Annoying thoughts or feelings or impulses that zig zag around on the periphery and won't sit politely like logic does.

Here's a little example of the power of the Mindell-ian flirt:

'Innerwork Tip 3: Don’t Throw Out Your Problem… Yet! A man who tried to get rid of a mouse, threw it in a little fire outside the house.  The mouse caught on fire, but ran back into the house and burned it down.

The moral of the story (for us) is; find out what bugs you. But don’t throw it out!  Use its nature in some useful way for yourself and others.'

He has a process to turn a symptom into a resource. You know how, if you have a neck ache, all you want is for it to stop - the impulse to suppress or escape. The symptom is nudging you and if you stop and listen and explore there can be a whole new approach, new insights and increased energy released to you. Mindell calls this being ecological and I like it. He encourages people to explore their 'edges' or their current 'edge'.
To find potential in the inconsequential and the rejected. You can read some of his refreshingly oblique processes here.

Yesterday I missed an opportunity. And I choose not to let the little flirt go to waste. I do my best to harvest in the impulse in a different modality:


small red sketched skull


there I was on the up

escalator 

on the move, hurrying on

to meet my obligation

to keep on the move

to get out of the tube

and onto the train when

I felt an urge

but my hand did not obey

I felt an urge

but my hand did not obey

and then saw

a little skull on a sticky label

a little red skull

with a bared teeth grin

stuck to the light

like a fairground lantern

at the level of my knee

little gnasher

trying to say to me

remember insurrection

each moment there is no escape

the hand that picked up the pen

put this here

to make you recalculate

what lateness

is really all about


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    Performer and theatremaker Peta Lily  has been taking photographs for the last five years. Her aesthetic has been to use her iPhone camera to capture the world close up and with an immediacy that is both surprising and moving.

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