What does it feel like to have your experience centered?Β How do you find your own center?
TYSON
CLF Member, incarcerated in TX
When I think of βcentered,β 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 βbad kid.β
What makes me feel most centered is the sky at dawn. Looking at the sky, I often think, βwow, all of this for me right this moment. Thank you for allowing me to share it with everything else.β I get pretty emotional these days, seeing the sky at dusk, and at midnightβ¦ 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 canβt find it, I go outside and look up. Maybe it finds me?