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Centering

1 November 2021 at 00:08
By: Tyson

What does it feel like to have your experience centered?Β  How do you find your own center?

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TYSON
CLF Member, incarcerated in TX

When I think of β€œcentered,” several concepts pop into my mind. Spatial reckoning. Centricity. Centrifugal forces. Center punch, meaning the tool I used to mark metals and plastics for precision drilling β€” and the center punch that I used to use to swiftly break car windows when I was a β€œbad kid.”

What makes me feel most centered is the sky at dawn. Looking at the sky, I often think, β€œwow, all of this for me right this moment. Thank you for allowing me to share it with everything else.” I get pretty emotional these days, seeing the sky at dusk, and at midnight… the sky and me seem to have a thing going lately.

My experience feels centered when the sky tells me that I am precisely as insignificant as I am suppose to be. The sky tells me to stop belittling myself even more; I have the entire world between my ears and the universe is in my mind and the sky is in my eyes. So what else could matter?

How do I find my own center? When I can’t find it, I go outside and look up. Maybe it finds me?

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