I never tried to excel in team sports. I can only imagine what it must be to have mastery of any sort of ball and to coordinate it with other team members. What does it feel like to embody something that moves around and away from you, and to be able to embody the others on the court or the field, to know if they are receptive to your pass or otherwise occupied?
But I like to think that in teaching I can practice something sort of like this-- to feel a student's energy and interact with it with precise intuition, even as it moves to different places, grows and retreats, is effected by a face in the window, or a shift in their parent's weight on the chair. Perhaps in any field, a person may hope to more fully embody their work and surroundings, to make it like a language that actually gives them meaning through their use of it. Sometimes I find myself seeking an interplay that is more natural than even some of the most natural things we do. And just as I hope my students will fall into themselves, I hope to fall into it as well.
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