PREMIERE | Ambergrove, “stills”
The faculties of the senses have the power to take us places. A certain aroma reminds us of the way a long lost friend’s home smelled from years and years past, or how a sound can remind us of a book’s worth of memories, a taste can take us to the dinner table of notable moments shared with lost loved ones, to the way our vision can discover similarities in the semiotics of persons, places, and other assorted things. The linear and chronological planes of existence collapse as we become enraptured by the pertinent things that have an impact on us (from the grandiose to the sublime). The things that make the good, the bad, and everything we wish we could forget all somehow worthwhile. All of this and more are parts of the stories that ultimately make us the people we are. These moments of mindfulness offer a host of perspectives, both new and old, shining a light on the things that we all but forgot, and perhaps casts a glow on the notions that hadn’t crossed our mind until that meditative moment. These fleeting moments make us feel alive, providing us a chance to run with abandon through the pages and chapters of experience that have contributed to all the innumerable events that influence and inspire us beyond the scales of measure.
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