Everyday Systems

--- In shovelglove@yahoogroups.com, "beautiful_idiot" <beautiful_idiot@y...> wrote:
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> --- In shovelglove@yahoogroups.com, "wolfe275" <wolfe.275@o...> wrote:
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> > I added butter churning today, with a kind of supplemental
> > rotating movement I called "stirring the caludron".
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> I love it! You could do a macbeth scenario.
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> http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/mac ... h.4.1.html

OMG-- that's great! Shoveling could become "Burying the Corpses," Chopping Wood could become "Executing Traitors" and Butter Churning "Impaling." Wow. I am SO set for SGing next week!

Shelley

Hi Shelly,

If you find it's a movement you stick with, send pictures or video and I'll put up a movement page for it.

P.S. thanks for switching over so quickly, after having just joining the yahoo group. Technology is annoying...

I just started SG today and also did a similar motion, though i more stuck with the manual labor of the past description and thought of it more as stirring the laundry (as in when people used to boil a big old kettle and then stir the clothes around in them).

i guess i just like all the historical references

Welcome, Ann.

Although I find the pop-culture scenarios amusing and fun for a change, I also prefer the duller, historical labor imagery. It's less flashy, but I think it's more deeply inspiring. This work is in our bones! Through thousands of generations of ancestor repetitions, it's a metaphor that's physically a part of us. No offense to descendents of actual witches and vampire slayers, of course.

Whichever way you look at it, this is a physically great move. I messed around with it a bit during freestyle this week and found it satisfying and exhausting. I might even go regular with it.