{"id":161,"date":"2010-10-29T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-10-29T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:44:53","slug":"keeping-the-wheel-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/29\/keeping-the-wheel-spinning\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the wheel spinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/7b-the-wheel.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-162\" title=\"7b. the wheel\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/7b-the-wheel.jpg?resize=288%2C396\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisathorpe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/7b-the-wheel.jpg?w=288&amp;ssl=1 288w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisathorpe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/7b-the-wheel.jpg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><!-- @font-face {   font-family: \"Cambria\"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } --> Well there are lots of metaphorical images to be teased from Monday\u2019s shadow of the wheel photo, I had a couple of great comments on Monday\u2019s post that expanded the conversation and I encourage you to check them out.\u00a0 As I got started on my art piece this week I focused much of my attention on the spokes of the wheel.\u00a0 The function of spokes is to hold the wheels rim to the axle, the spokes have to stand in perfect tension to each other or the wheel goes catawampus, gets lopsided and keeps the wheel from turning smoothly or turning at all.\u00a0 The word tension in my mind generally has negative connotations (the pinch in my right shoulder just gave a twinge to remind me what that tension can feel like) but I think perhaps we run away from what tension has to offer.\u00a0 I keep imagining myself standing on a teeter-totter, legs straddling the center point, striving, struggling to keep it level.\u00a0 Each time the board tips one way I feel a lift on the opposite side and muscles tense and push the board back into balance, action\/reaction.\u00a0 In the art piece I portrayed each spoke as a double helix, the spiral model of our DNA, with the idea that this tension is built into us in our structure.\u00a0 Any of us who have been around small children can attest to the fact that children have personality traits that they come into the world with, they are who they are!\u00a0 As children this can only be pure nature\u2026the trick is using that pure nature in it\u2019s most constructive form.\u00a0 What I\u2019m trying to get at is the tension again.\u00a0 Tension between dark and light, negative and positive, balanced and unbalanced.\u00a0 Nothing about us is inherently good or inherently bad\u2026it\u2019s how we use what we have\u2026it\u2019s how we react as we stand on the teeter-totter, do we use core tension in our inner wheel to get in balance or out of balance?\u00a0 My thoughtful, science minded 14-year-old son said it was like \u201cdiffusion\u201d in cell biology, the balancing of amino acids from areas that are always striving towards equilibrium with in each cell.\u00a0 This struggle to be in balance gets down to the cellular level!\u00a0 Finding the useful, constructive component in all our traits is the trick, so hop on your teeter-totter of a life, get all the wheels of your core self spinning and see (to quote poet Mary Oliver) &#8220;what will you do with your one wild and precious life?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well there are lots of metaphorical images to be teased from Monday\u2019s shadow 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