your body is a love song to a lost ecosystem ~ "Our bodies are love songs to extinct ecosystems, weathered down to minerals and sparkling dust. We are all the ecotones where vegetal translations of sunlight, minerals, pollen, and pollution converge to briefly coalesce into the constellation of a human self. We are a landscape where microbial and subatomic reunions happen that we will never be able to witness. We are the liminal realm where edge species can experiment with new forms of communal living just like our ancestors experimented with civilization and agriculture in the ecotonal floodplains of the Euphrates. Life occurs in the overlap. In the floodplains. In the connective tissue that in a human body connects different organs and in a living earth connects different bioregions to weave together the dynamic homeostasis of the greater biosphere. Life experiments and changes and flourishes in the places where bodies meet and dialogue with each other, asking questions, and mutually changing each other. " - Sophie Strand excerpted from the keynote talk "On Being Numerous: Bodily Ecologies & The Intelligence of the Interstitial" for the 2022 Feldenkrais Summit ~ in frame: a walk through the back yard admiring nature's jewels during rainy season. we tracked down baby jackfruits, cacao pods, durians, sirsak, a gorgeous pink flower called rose grapes and snacked on the coffee fruit.