spatial perception

Real in a Place

“The connection to place remains deep: touching the core of our being. Landscape is our mirror, our book of revelations…” Suzannah Lessard, The Absent Hand: Reimaging Our American Landscape I just finished a thought provoking read about the American landscape – as in the literal physical places we inhabit – that provides unexpected insight into the primacy of our relationship to the spaces we navigate in everyday life. The Absent Hand, by Suzannah Lessard, takes the reader on a vivid…

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Balance, Motion, and Space

On a beautiful late summer day in the Rocky Mountains, I joined participants at the Easter Seals Rocky Mountain Village Post Polio Wellness Retreat to teach a class on balance. People from all over the country came to Colorado to participate in classes and activities about living with post polio syndrome – a condition affecting polio survivors that includes muscle weakness, atrophy, and fatigue that can occur many years after recovery from the original illness. Post polio syndrome’s impact on balance may result…

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Being in Motion

Over Christmas I met my new grandniece who, at the age of one month, loves to dance. Any kind of rhythmic motion soothes and enthralls her. Whether we grooved to Stevie Wonder or waltzed to Frank Sinatra, her cries would cease, her muscles relax, and her eyes brightly turn to the swirling landscape around her. While others in the family were curious to discover the object of little Emma’s gaze, my wonder was with the process of how she responded…

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