Things that shouldn't float on air on a relatively calm day
It is so delightful to be faced with the physically impossible: things that shouldn’t exist, things that CAN’T exist but do. The mind always eventually makes sense of these phenomena, but always too soon - but for that split second before it does, the world is not how we rightfully expect it to be, and perhaps we, too, are too briefly freed from the strong inevitable: the gravitational pull of sense and logic and physics and experience* (see bottom of blog) . And earth. Here below is a collection of videos of one of the ways that these moments come into my life: leaves and things dangling on spider threads. Walking through the woods or a park or a backyard or, as happened today: riding my bike to the farmer's market and there, right in front of my eyes is the nonsense: a leaf floating or spinning or swinging mid-air and not fluttering down to the earth, as it oughta. And even once the mind IS returned to its home, where everything respectfully obeys the laws of physics, we