In a time of consumption...

The word 'consume’ or ‘consumption' has been commoditised, particularly in connection with this time of year. It's not the only word used by the systems to generate comparison and shame and unconsciousness and it's true for me that I find the word - consume - a really relevant and resonant one for me at the moment.

I do not feel the fizz of creativity and curiosity in any particular direction or toward any particular thing at the moment, and that's totally ok with me. It's winter after all. It's a time for hibernation and decomposition and letting stillness, not stopping, be embraced.

However...

my curiosity is present right now, and because it's not drawn in a specific direction, I let it be about the larger elements of life; of energies and words. And so to 'consume' I turn my head - and then my body - to watch, to notice and to ponder; to wonder and wander about how I interact with the word, its energy and my learned responses around it. And one potent thing I notice is that...

I'm ravenous

in multiple ways right now

My body is a large vessel. It requires lots of consumption and nourishment in order to remain strong and vital and light and conscious. My brain is a voracious beast. It aches for sustenance and things to help it question the reality it has learned to perceive up to this point. And this point. And…you get the point.

I dug out a DVD of Pina and I feel so satisfied and sated (for the time being). In my winter stillness I will consume and absorb. Without a destination; without a product or manifestation in mind. Simply consuming for the fullness I get to experience, for the deliciousness of novelty and frivolity and the silly and the truthful.

To consumption and the no-need-to-knows!

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