Today’s word: “ikat”(ee-kaht) Tie-dyeing yarn before weaving. Here’s an amazing time-lapse video on youtube.
Weave
We’re knitted in our mother’s womb it’s said …
woven like
ikat, in complexity.
What does it take to make a human self
with
everything in place, just so?
Imagine for a moment that you’re the one
tasked with
this challenge most formidable.
Where would you start to piece together
muscle,
sinew, bone or brain?
What would your pattern be … what loom …
what materials
for living flesh and breath?
Would you start at the bottom or the top …
inside out
or outside in? What scaffold would suffice?
Perhaps the mechanics would come easily,
adding this
bone to that … but then we know
What works. What if you’d never before seen
this creature
and had to start from scratch?
And once the pieces were all together matched,
what would
cause it first to move?
Or keep it moving on its daily pilgrimage?
Or cause it
in the end to die?
Maybe motion would be the easier part.
If consciousness
was required, what would be its source?
And then, would the creature understand the nature of its
life?
Would it
question you as maker?
Would it call to you for help or understanding?
Would it
pray for guidance or scream at you in pain?
Would it dance in joy at its perfection
or in thankfulness
for what little it could comprehend?
Would you answer? Softly or with thunder?
Would you
feel responsible? Or turn your back
On this dependent questioning thing?
What if you
fell in love with your creation?
What if you decided that this being
should have
a soul and look a lot like you?
Would you evoke this extra bit of eternality
from chemicals
inert or bits of stone?
Or would you place a bit of self, your own,
into this troubled
creature and his world,
Knowing that if he searched persistently
he would
find you there.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2013
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