Relationships are defined by proximity; meaning- by context and locale. Each could tell their story from their particular vantage point, and because of limited view, only partial stories exist.
There really isn't any whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God.
Long shot: one could observe behavior and events.
She is behaving thus, and doing that there.
I hover above the scene and observe the happenings.
I am surprised by tears.
Sometimes it takes a while for a soul to catch up with its body.
Posted by weez at May 1, 2004 12:10 PM | TrackBackI think a while ago either Mamamusings or Planned Obsolescence or both had entries on dealing with jet lag. And someone commented that jet lag was like waiting for the soul to catch up with the body. Whether or not the connection with jet lag is accurate, is there some travel element at work in this entry? Some looping through a number of perspectives? Some shunting back and forth between here and there?
There is the word "hover" that probably links in my mind with jet lag though jets do anything but hover. Hovering is a high energy exercise. Ask the humming bird fueling up on nectar, an equivalent of high octane.
Weez's entry under the title "disembodied" makes me believe a hibiscus bloom is a mirror image of a humming bird in flight. And the bloom is not the body of the plant just as the flight is not the body of the bird.
Posted by: Francois Lachance at May 1, 2004 08:03 PMIn William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, the protagonist explains just that phenomena. It was in my mind when I wrote the post.
Steve Johnson, in Mind Wide Open describes how the brain funtions at various speeds. Language processing happens in mere seconds. The release of adrenaline and other physical/emotional responses take longer (minutes to hours). There is a disjoint between the trigger and the response.
In any case, the disjoint is real and, apparently, not uncommon.
Posted by: weez at May 1, 2004 09:11 PMHi
Posted by: Jon at November 4, 2004 10:17 AM