Envision: Scope

Musing…

“Esse est Percepi”, “To be is to be perceived”
-- George Berkeley, 18^th century Anglo-Irish philosopher

We are often each other’s mirrors, unable to see ourselves in ways others see us.  

  

Charise’s Turn: 

A fortuitous turn of events has put me in direct contact with Dr. Alianna Maren, aka Alay’nya, the dancer/author of Unveiling: The Inner Journey. She blogged about my dance performance in May, I commented on her blog, she responded to my feedback, we became curious about each other’s published books and about our shared interests in dance, writing, reflection, and then met to exchange books to co-review for amazon. An ever-widening loop of interconnected parts that started with performer and audience – the movement that stirred her to write, the writing that stirred my response, the communication that stirred an interest in meeting, the meeting that stirred us to support each other’s endeavors, the support that bolsters our endeavors in reaching so many other people.

With her fresh perspective on what A Portable Identity is about, I am better able to see the essence of my work, how it applies to situations other than relocation, how turning points in life are thresholds similar to facing new frontiers overseas. To remove the context of relocation from the model of identity, in a sense “unveil” or "un-camouflage" the heart of the matter, is to see how A Portable Identity is relevant to many, and maybe to all of us at one time or another, when change calls us to dig deep within ourselves to understand and reinvent who we are.  Now I have a bigger scope for my message, a greater connection to my own material, and a way to deliver it to a larger community of people. 

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