Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
— Carl Jung
My friend Chance pulled me aside at my birthday party, saying, “I don’t know if this will mean something. I had a dream about you the other night. In it, I saw da Vinci’s Vitruvian man. Does it mean anything to you?”
“Yes,” I responded, “indeed it does. Feldenkrais resonated with this symbol. He referred to it when he taught about the proportions of the human body. ”
“That’s good because I made you this,” she said as she placed the wire sculpture pictured above into the palm of my hand.
I have no idea how it happens, but I sure am grateful that my friends and I are on the same wavelength.
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Responses:
Larry Goldfarb -August 15, 2023
Thanks for your birthday wishes, Mark. I'll let chance know about your name envy!
Frauke Voss Voss -August 21, 2023
What a beautiful gesture!
Larry Goldfarb -August 15, 2023
Thanks for saying so, Darcia. (I love it, too. I just had to share it.)
Larry Goldfarb -August 15, 2023
Thanks you, Linda. (I'm blushing.) I appreciate the birthdy wishes!
Larry Goldfarb -August 15, 2023
Thanks for saying so, Darcia! I love it, too, which is why I had to share it.
Larry Goldfarb -August 18, 2023
Thank you, Diana!
Mark Hirschfield -August 14, 2023
Beautiful. Happy Birthday, again. And stay close to your friend, Chance. (I don’t have name envy about many names, but I would have loved to have been named Chance.)
Diana Griffin -August 15, 2023
I am so glad you exist.
darcia-dexter -August 15, 2023
Love this!
Larry Goldfarb -August 14, 2023
Indeed it was a beautiful gesture. You could even say that the sculpture captures the artist's gestures and make the ephemeral concrete.
linda-rulli -August 14, 2023
Beautiful gift for a beautiful man! And Happy Bitehday’
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