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Food as cultural heritage

​Sitting this one out

8/31/2018

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I’m riding my bike a few flat miles in 96 degree heat before barging into refrigerated campus buildings. My lungs can’t take the sudden 20 degree difference. You know where this is going.
I’ve had a cold my first two weeks in Dallas. So I’ll do what I do best: I’ll sit this one out and observe.

Classes begin. They wash over us as implacably as the tides. As soon as I’ve regained my footing, the  next one sends me tumbling, coughing, gasping for air. I never had good hair, so that hasn’t changed.

When I worked, I had some control over the rhythm of the stroke. No longer. The theoretical classes—“Microeconomics of the Arts Market” and “Cultural Policy”—are taught by the same person three days a week, so I can’t tell which way is up.

I got here thinking I knew in which direction I was pointed. Our five courses have jumbled that and blown everything open. I’m passionate about being an advocate for culture in immigrant communities; or showing artistic directors the harmony in numbers as a CPA; or being the best storyteller that fundraising has ever seen. I just don’t know anymore. Tracy warned me about that.

Despite my cold, I swim each day. So I get really sick. But in the pool is when ideas bubble up from not-me. I treasure those evanescent drops of air. They’ll get me through the next four months, given how far behind I’m falling. 
5 Comments
Stacey
8/31/2018 07:48:18 pm

It sounds like cocooning and in the end something beautiful will open and fly. Stay strong and allow the first part to envelop you.

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Jen Shakti?⚡?☀
9/1/2018 12:26:24 pm

I have been swimming at the Y 2x a week!! Swimming really is a beautiful meditation and way to cleanse the mind and body. I got sick a while back too- I believe it helped prana clear out internal spaces my breath couldn’t reach without the buoyancy!!!

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Kit
9/1/2018 03:34:10 pm

Dear Ann Christine, must feel like you are being swept along in a mad current that is racing to the sea around boulders and over stones and some times taking the banks along too. You swim so well and while you swim the ideas come. Can you let your body go with the water and see what comes? Sending you hugs.

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Brian Whang
9/2/2018 06:13:07 pm

Chlorine is a hell of a drug.

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Margie
9/3/2018 12:59:20 pm

Your state of education confusion reminds me of starting a new job. Having to learn a bunch of different computer programs. Everything swirling around in my head. As a fellow Virgo we expect to be able to organize and absorb immediately. Breathe and give yourself a moment. The path will emerge.

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