{"id":65,"date":"2011-10-03T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-10-03T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:41:20","slug":"personal-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Personal Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I chose to honor a small rebellion inside me to do something without knowing why. I chose to walk to the train, rather than drive.<\/p>\n<p>This is how conceptual photographer, Matthew Jensen found the inspiration for his series,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nowhere in Manhattan&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/151-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/151-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/151.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-201005171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"10-20100517\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-201005171-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-201005171-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-201005171.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2-201005171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2-201005171-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2-201005171-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2-201005171.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, inspired by Matt and in honor of small rebellions, I set out to rediscover the narrow, rock-strewn, dirt footpath through our neighbor&#8217;s yard that connects Crooked Trail to Deane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new35-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new35-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new35-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new35.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I set out to see the short jog of over-grown, un-manicaured greenery that hides the bumpy jog of earthen trail that connects Deane street to the New Haven-bound parking lot. I set out to transform my &#8220;shortcut&#8221; into a &#8220;double-shot of surburban limbo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.evolvetheconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/new2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I walked because I have too many energies inside me that needed moving out. That need to NOT be shut-inside another small space.<\/p>\n<p>Moving energy. Matt offers us a space to do this inside the congested maze of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>5Rhythms offers the same through dance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gabrielle Roth Documentary Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7bZv4ITwP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They too are based in the fast-paced-frenetic-all-at-one-time energy of Manhattan. Why? Because as founder, Gabrielle Roth says, &#8220;Manhattan mirrors our minds exactly.&#8221; Mirrors our minds exactly&#8230; yes. I think it does. Mirrors mine for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I keep forgetting and being reminded, that within that frenetic island of chaos, with its densely-packed-to-do-and-not-to-do-list, is wide open wilderness. In the Manhattan of our minds, there is Nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Matt recovers these lost places and although his objectives are of a more political nature, he offers me (and maybe I am not alone) a space in my mind that has NOT been razed. That has NOT been developed into the high efficiency, high-design, high-in-the-sky, taller, prettier skyscraper model home.<\/p>\n<p>A space that IS pure possibility.<\/p>\n<p>He walks and walks and walks until streets end and footpaths begin and he finds it. Or perhaps it finds him.<br \/>\nThe oasis. The retreat. The room inside our mind with the door we have never opened.<br \/>\n5Rhthms dance and dance and dance and dance and dance until energy moves.<br \/>\nUntil we embrace the dance. Or perhaps it embraces us.<br \/>\nAnd we return to our personal wilderness. It to us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I chose to honor a small rebellion inside me to do something without knowing why. 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