Movement

Last week I took myself on retreat, a return to a place I had found and chosen and retreated to last summer.  Last year was about deep listening within, about growth, about solitude, about finding my next book.  This year was about recognition, noticing, feeling into layers, resting.  My art is shifting.  It is about movement now, about space, about sound; it is about the interplay between what I have always done and what my body is fidgeting or eager to do; it is about how solitude dances with interaction.  I am finding deeper truth beneath the words, in the places where articulation and communication is harder, slower. 

Sometimes we fall into habits, responding to others before we can really hear ourselves.  In shifting my ways of expression, I begin to hear the quieter needs and desires. 

I begin again to notice.

How do we take a retreat and bring it back home?

I think retreat helps us answer and reanswer this question: how do you want to engage with the world and engage with yourself?

We bring a retreat back home in how, each day, we live our answer to that question.