Bringing Shared Authorship to what 'We' Create
Language and concepts around ‘self’, ‘us’, ‘I’, and ‘we’ have significantly different contextual meanings when speaking, communicating, and creating. Here's a look at co-creating as a Relational Being
As a human being we’re composed of so many living organisms beyond the body, mind, or soul. This person writing these words is a limited - and not wholly accurate or authentic - representation of who is producing and co-crearing this here writing.
Therefore to entirely claim personal or individual authorship seems untrue or perhaps at minimum a misrepresentation when you/I/we consider…
The Canyon, Owls, and Ravens cavorting
along with the wind
and these swaying trees and shrubs,
a hyperbolic paraboloid shade fabric structure
that dances along with the jazz music.
This chair, desk, and computer,
and all the contributing beings
that created these
and countless
other books
n’ paintings,
pictures.
Or the words, ideas, theories,
philosophies n’ practices,
tethered to all humans
who’ve come before.
These dried bouquets of flowers,
and plumage of various feathers
from winged companions of this land,
this body's energetic exchanges
traveling with, and as part
of this living planet
for 40+ spiraling spins
swirling
through space and time
with all the stars, galaxies,
quasars, n’ quarks, and beyond
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and on and on and on
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All here in proximity to this
present, past and future
Relational Being
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What I have typically,
casually refered to as
simply ‘me’.
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The breath
appears to be
connected to this
as a mighty inhalation
came with writing the word…
opening.
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Oxygen, created so generously
by all these vegetal companions
and other agents of manifestation,
decomposition, death, rebirth,
curiosity, and collaboration,
coming in through the nostrils
moving between lungs and blood,
places teaming with life
and interacting at all times
in exquisite relationships
at invisible levels as part of
this body’s shared,
relational being.
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Each inhale
and exhale
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Every breath
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Myriad Beings
dance and
Become ‘Me’.
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And I
them.
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Onward
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Outward
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Inward
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Never
Ending
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Spirals
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Always.
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A lizard
smaller than my pinky
was in my hand today.
They surely were creatively
contributing to this to some degree.
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What level of information
was exchanged between us
is hard to quantify or qualify.
Yet a relationship occurred
and these words are
but slippery
anchors
to help
guide
us
towards tangible interpretations.
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Thankfully though, intuitively, sensorially,
and in an embodied way we certainly
can access the channels of these communications.
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Relationally.
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Some would say
the soul is involved.
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Spiritually speaking,
This human co-author
supports this.
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And the great Animus Mundi
suddenly arrives in our shared awareness
and sets the stage for seeing
the many souls and the greater soul
of this very planet, often referred to as Gaia
dancing out~in~to (and with) the cosmos,
participating and playing
together as part of
you and I, and we
always and in all ways.
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Let's take another
Deep breath
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To let
the present in
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The above is/was but one way of considering how we are co-becoming, co-creating, and be-ing in relationship with this incredible living world, and beyond. Here’s to staying open, present, and aware of how each of us has layers and nuances to our identity. We are a multitude. We are relational beings and we are human beings, too. The vastness of our relationship with reality presents us with plenty of opportunity to be in complete and utter awe of the complexity, chaos, and cosmos of it all.