Dansite Reading Journal

• "A child's foot doesn't know it's a foot yet."

—Pablo Neruda, To the Foot From its Child, https://motherbird.com/foot_child.html

p. 6

• The Sanskrit word "gata" that which we have walked. "anāgata" that which we have not yet walked.
• It is estimated that Homo Sapiens first made their way out of South Africa over 70,000 years ago. (Seven hundred centuries)

p. 25

• Prose piece The Walk, Robert Walser
  "I shall never understand, how it can be called a pleasure to hurtle past all the images and objects which our beautiful earth displays, as if one had gone mad and had to accelerate for fear of despair."

p. 35

• Correlation between, slowness and intelligence, emotion, memory, and creativity.

p. 75

• The idea of thinking with your entire self. Your collective experience colors all of your inputs. You hear a bird with your past experiences of hearing a bird, so no one else can hear that bird the same way that you do.

p. 83

• A heart surgeon gives a two year old girl a new heart, but leaves the original one in place. Years later he reconnects the original heart now grown strong and healthy.