Fascinating article. I always learn so much from your posts, and they often ‘blow my mind.’ Now I need to find a better conceptual metaphor for that! x
Marta, this is a brilliant essay. The last paragraphs where you say how discovering new metaphors can be both revelatory and liberating is spot on. That was what your time spiral idea was for me.
The further idea you really us offer here that by unearthing new metaphors(omg, I just did it myself!) we can make worlds possible is not new but the way you have laid it out resonates and infuses me with energy and the creative urge to interrogate certain areas of stuckness in my life through the lens of what metaphor I am implicitly using.
Something else I so appreciate about your thinking and writing is how you expose me to other thinkers I hadn’t heard of. I can’t wait to share the Empire of Botany with my son who is obsessed with moss!
But wait, there’s more. I want you to know that I see from afar the incredible blooming of you since the time I first came in contact with your insta page to the course I took with you to now. I see a continual searching, unfolding and blooming of your truest self that as it is accepted, continues to give gifts to the rest of us with more and more clarity. This gives me real hope for myself who feels very much the jelly mess of caterpillar in the cocoon. I love you Marta. Thank you for sharing your Self with the rest of us.
Fascinating article. I always learn so much from your posts, and they often ‘blow my mind.’ Now I need to find a better conceptual metaphor for that! x
Haha! Once you see it, you can’t unsee it!
I do so love your writing.
You have been one of my biggest and longest supporters and it means the world to me. Sending lots of love. 💕
Marta, this is a brilliant essay. The last paragraphs where you say how discovering new metaphors can be both revelatory and liberating is spot on. That was what your time spiral idea was for me.
The further idea you really us offer here that by unearthing new metaphors(omg, I just did it myself!) we can make worlds possible is not new but the way you have laid it out resonates and infuses me with energy and the creative urge to interrogate certain areas of stuckness in my life through the lens of what metaphor I am implicitly using.
Something else I so appreciate about your thinking and writing is how you expose me to other thinkers I hadn’t heard of. I can’t wait to share the Empire of Botany with my son who is obsessed with moss!
But wait, there’s more. I want you to know that I see from afar the incredible blooming of you since the time I first came in contact with your insta page to the course I took with you to now. I see a continual searching, unfolding and blooming of your truest self that as it is accepted, continues to give gifts to the rest of us with more and more clarity. This gives me real hope for myself who feels very much the jelly mess of caterpillar in the cocoon. I love you Marta. Thank you for sharing your Self with the rest of us.