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Moving Atoms

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Spoiler alert: In the third season of the British TV show Downtown Abbey, the charming blue-eyed husband of the protagonist, Mary Crawley, dies in a sudden car crash. Mary goes into shock. She retreats into herself, barely paying any attention to her newborn son and slinking away from all responsibilities. After 6 months (or, well, 15 mins in TV-time), her family gives her a wake up call. It is time to move forward, they say. You must make a choice. Choose death, as you have been, or choose life. This cold-water treatment knocks Mary out of her stupor, and she begins to take on responsibilities and a role in the world again.

Moving Atoms Parentheses Thoughts Creative Parentheses Thursday, February 20, 2025 Before words, energy Before words, energy. Many of my parts do not speak mind-language. They speak in pulses, timelessness, waves of emotion that I cannot even name. They feel energetic vacillations in the field like the wind from butterfly wings. I am not listening to your words (I am, I am listening), but I am listening to what it is that you are not saying, what it is that your body is saying, what it is that your being is vibrating out. Sometimes, you say “I reached out to him” and a silence hang

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