 pulls the covers to cast day onto the freezing tiles.
I took my shirt off. Almost stripped naked in our backyard.
Vehicle, this vehicle, my body.
Vehicle, this name.
Bhrigu, supposed ancestor on my father’s side, and his father, began their lesson passed orally down to us with a verse praying that their gathering with one another could somehow aid in the joy, health, and relief from suffering of others.
This desire to know the names of trees. Which means to know the names humans give them.
I could have asked the tree with light green, small spades for leaves flowering small, white petals in young spring for its name.
And tried to listen. Allowed myself to fail.
But I was dancing, awkwardly, aware of my fragile bare feet on the bramble, acorns, grass, and withered leaves.
And though ginger and slow-footed, I was more comfortable unclothed among the trees—the tall, thin, imported Junipers and the lotus shaped purple succulents and the many other plants whose names I do not know.
Consider my dance an overdue first step toward conscious participation in the life around me.
Participation in a place I’ll never own.
As all places—unknowable.
Physical, emotional, spiritual, and metaphorical.
Simon reminding me this week, not land, but place. Not acting upon, but participating in.
Far back enough, this grass and these trees, this dirt and I share a common ancestor.
Perhaps a particle of my father’s dust has followed the current to follow me here From Maumee River to the harbor. And the dust of his parents, too.
And maybe mom’s parents have crossed the Pacific from Cerritos to feed this tree, too.
The one with white flowers for whom I have no name.
The one who I danced so close to that under one leaf, I spotted a grey shadow and thought it might be a beetle atop chewing its way through, ony to find upon my undulation a white flower close and floating just above.
And between them, me, choosing how I want to participate given this vehicle I find myself in.
So inconsistent with workouts, I’m learning to love the softness of my body, so midway through the track, I tossed my shirt off and onto the computer steps away.
Felt the cold air on my navel.
Though some of the neighbors who could surely hear.
The way Tessa, at my request, joined me to start.
Who I asked because it is in part thanks to her that I accept this body’s softness and its need to move and be moved.
Yes, this practice.
An escape from the binary fixities in which my action potentials have been trained to move.
Toward new potentials of action.
Potential starts with rest at the top of some hill.
In the 32 years of this life, I’ve expended enough energy for activation.
Now I’m at the threshold of this reaction, the rituals my enzyme.
To move, move!
These lineages of breath and place I bring with me and participate in.
Transnational whakapapa. Transhuman participant.<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: UI fixes
username_0: to the new UI
<issue_comment>username_0:![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42478217/89213216-627e7000-d5e2-11ea-9e06-d816431c0971.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42478217/89213255-6e6a3200-d5e2-11ea-8c4d-97fa8e6bb20b.png)
<issue_comment>username_0: @username_1 here are the UI fixes & changes requested
<issue_comment>username_1: 2. These dropdowns are not working (ignore the old styling):
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16988558/89704965-bee0e700-d976-11ea-95fa-dc5eae7eee84.png)

4. Yes, X on circuit tabs is missing in this. It was there previously.
5. Sorry, not dialogue box, I was talking about the user dropdown box.
<issue_comment>username_0: It doesn't stick on my screen, must reduce width more if it's sticking on your screen
<issue_comment>username_1: One last thing, on clicking on Project Name on the top, the user should be directed to the Edit Project Name input box
<issue_comment>username_0: I have added that already on the feature PR
<issue_comment>username_0: There are few more adjusting to do here, but waiting to get #1585 merged first, to get the final adjustments to be made.
<issue_comment>username_2: @username_0 we can now work on this PR
<issue_comment>username_0: surely, let's get #1695 merged, then I can start with the merge conflictsAccording to CBSNews.com, a lawsuit was filed against Juul due to accusations that they market their product to children online.
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