yes, i'm back. and happy that i am. maui was nice and all, but with aiden's illness (which, it turns out, was walking pneumonia) and with my inability to appreciate the slow-paced lifestyle of lahaina, well- again, i'm glad to be back.
aiden is recovering pretty well, he's almost back to his effusive cheerful little self. unfortunately, during the course of his illness, lynn and i lost a lot of sleep. sounds selfish, but the two of us just need some time to recover, to realign our sleep patterns... today, between morning clinic and my afternoon taiji class, i almost took a fateful nap... you know, the kind of nap where you are negotiating a small gap of time, whether you can risk sinking into slumber, i mean, could you sink just low enough to grab some respite, without sinking so low that you can't return to functional consciousness in time for your next obligations??? that was how i felt. i only had like 30 minutes. and when that was up, i kept begging for another minute, another five minutes, etc. by the time i left for taiji class, i had fifteen minutes to get to waipio...
i have a lot to think about and work on...
i've been reading "anatomy trains" by thomas w. myers. it is an AWESOME book... i initially heard about it when researching the double spiral orientation of certain muscle groups and the correlation between that and the chinese extraordinary vessel known as the dai mai (or girdle vessel)... but now that i have the book in my hands, i realize that it is so much more... i've only read part of the first chapter, but it is revolutionary and mind-opening already... basically, myers is highlighting connective tissue, which has, for the most part, been ignored by western medicine, or relegated to a relatively unimportant stature as the "white/yellow" parts of the musculoskeletal system. in actuality, connective tissue is a unified web WITHIN WHICH all other tissues "float" suspended. connective tissue, in other words, has been largely ignored precisely because it is so UBIQUITOUS and impossible to tease apart and isolate. but as is becoming the case in so much of science, the realization of the importance of BACKGROUND SUBTLE FORCES is slowly gaining ground in bodywork and medicine. arguably, it is connective tissue that is the most likely candidate for the medium of transference for acupuncture stimulation. and, of course, it is connective tissue ("fascia") that is the target medium for powerful bodywork methods like rolfing (structural integration)...
some interesting highlights so far: the notion that the three main networks in the human body each has its own rhythm, fastest being the "neural net," slowest being the vascular system (which he says runs on an ancient, chemical mediated rhythm), and in between, the connective tissue or fascial network. the latter actually has two rhythms, one almost instantaneous ("the speed of sound," as it registers vibrations just like any object does) and another very slow but very significant (the slow and gradual manner in which the body "adjusts" to forces in the environment by changes in posture).
another highlight: the double-bag structure of the human body, repeated almost fractally and historically (myers gives a rush course through embryonic history, noting the double-bag structure at each and every stage of development).
also: i've been continuing to study the herb zoo flashcards... funny stuff.
and, i just got kiiko matsumoto's style of acupuncture volume 2 along with some of her "tools of the trade": a triple bypass cord, some diode rings, a silver diode chain. funny, i had ALL of these things and more, but i lost them all in a car fire. it's neat recollecting those tools. maybe i am restoring my skills as an acupuncturist, but now (because of that incident, and because of time) with a bit more wisdom (*YEAH RIGHT*).
i've been trying to play other parts of "reckoner" on the piano. i like the last part. i discovered the chord sequence, which actually runs throughout the song, only in different orders. just by playing with the chords, separating them out, playing them in different rhythms, you can really get different effects...
i've also got my online course on special education to worry about. i could finish all my assignments for the course and get it over with now... but who am i kidding? i need deadlines to delay the inevitable...
NEXT WEEK, my second course for the summer will begin. AGH!!! another special ed course. that will really make my summer schedule hairy. and, i've got to reapply to uh, and register for fall courses pretty soon as well...
i want to write more in marsilani, but who has the time... i have a lot of ideas: the amphibious stories will center around kappa and the notion of ressentiment. the moth-eaten story will be organized around the ten oxherding pictures, and will incorporate mothra (the twin girls) and the mothra song (about the god of happiness)... so many ideas, so many hopes, sometimes i think i could explode.
but it is wonderful to feel life as being so rich, too rich and rife with possibilities that i could never exhaust them, they can and will only exhaust me...
... i need a vacation to explore them all...
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