Comments on: Caterpillar AND Butterfly http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/ small bites to think talk & walk Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:01:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Deborah http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/#comment-7777 Deborah Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:33:01 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/#comment-7777 Excellent, love it! Excellent, love it!

]]> By: Natalie Shell http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/#comment-3952 Natalie Shell Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:55:42 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/#comment-3952 Additional element / key clarification: thanks to conversation with Josh - the revolution thjat we are looking for here is to be REMINDED of what we always knew... as humans we are storytelling animals...and storytelling, in its true form has always been a MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE!!!!! we need to remember that and start thinking of the various ways to use differnt forms of media in each opportunity - whether combining visuals and sound to a journal article, a dalogue faciltiated circle(s) at conferences, open space around the water hole/tea-coffee cart in betweeen meetings and so forth...and spaces that encourage this it is about bringing back ancient practices and seeing them with all the layers and possiblities they always had - the butterfly they always were - with the now timely advent of technology that makes those possibilities visable...thanks Josh and Edgers for sllowing/reinforcing my making story and storytelling my work Additional element / key clarification:
thanks to conversation with Josh - the revolution thjat we are looking for here is to be REMINDED of what we always knew… as humans we are storytelling animals…and storytelling, in its true form has always been a MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE!!!!!
we need to remember that and start thinking of the various ways to use differnt forms of media in each opportunity - whether combining visuals and sound to a journal article, a dalogue faciltiated circle(s) at conferences, open space around the water hole/tea-coffee cart in betweeen meetings and so forth…and spaces that encourage this

it is about bringing back ancient practices and seeing them with all the layers and possiblities they always had - the butterfly they always were - with the now timely advent of technology that makes those possibilities visable…thanks Josh and Edgers for sllowing/reinforcing my making story and storytelling my work

]]> By: Natalie Shell http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/#comment-3951 Natalie Shell Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:54:52 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2006/11/16/it-is-the-caterpillar-who-spins/#comment-3951 A Poem I wrote to a friend iMarch 29th 2005 "we are storytelling animals … do we create the story or reasonate with it?" asks apt russell - 'an obsession with butterflies'. a delicious tale - of colour and vine, rhythm and … of spectacular metamorphasis that is rarer than I thought…so many things can prevent the metamorphasis. for most caterpillers stay just that. dying before they become butterflies. yet sometimes... often enough because even the fools 'have seen them with their own eyes' so they must be true… the butterfly emerges... did you know that amongst entomologists: nabokov is synonymous with lepidoptera not loltia rotheschild's trade in insects not notes there is a history we have yet to learn a language we have yet to understand there is a belief butterflies could be a human souls they tell of walls of holocaust camps with butterflies engraved or en-chalked or en-poemed. though not the honeybee, the butterfly has a sophistcated learning ability and a good memory. and the smartest butterfly sups the passion vine Not only the butterfly is beautiful - it has many lessons and answers to share. no wonder so many are following the butterfly! a butterfly mleody is unfolding… here is its start, or middle, end, or a soliloquy. a butterfly melody - tragedy and its antonym small egg, dropped dapple the back of leaf. or clustered on its front. dropped small egg. small egg beware there be dragons. death walks by your youth birds and wasps. endangered small egg beware speckled caterpiller. speckled caterpiller sup sup sup survive against the odds even with cunning tricks of mutualism with ants and plants of masks and acids and toxins and acrid scents of stripes and colours and spinning thread luck be with you survive by passion vine. passion vine supping - the heliconious do. genuis of the genus live longer, learn faster. sophisticated elegant. the passion approach to metamorphasis metamorphasis too flutters by so shake and beat your wings take flight and live by the passion vine dance, learn, mate and be. A Poem I wrote to a friend iMarch 29th 2005

“we are storytelling animals … do we create the story or reasonate with it?” asks apt russell - ‘an obsession with butterflies’.

a delicious tale - of colour and vine, rhythm and …

of spectacular metamorphasis that is rarer than I thought…so many things can prevent the metamorphasis. for most caterpillers stay just that. dying before they become butterflies.

yet sometimes…

often enough because even the fools ‘have seen them with their own eyes’ so they must be true…
the butterfly emerges…

did you know that amongst entomologists:
nabokov is synonymous with lepidoptera not loltia
rotheschild’s trade in insects not notes

there is a history we have yet to learn
a language we have yet to understand

there is a belief butterflies could be a human souls

they tell of walls of holocaust camps
with butterflies engraved
or en-chalked or en-poemed.

though not the honeybee,
the butterfly has a sophistcated learning ability
and a good memory.

and the smartest butterfly sups the passion vine

Not only the butterfly is beautiful
- it has many lessons and answers to share.

no wonder so many are following the butterfly!
a butterfly mleody is unfolding…
here is its start, or middle,
end, or a soliloquy.

a butterfly melody - tragedy and its antonym

small egg, dropped
dapple the back of leaf.
or clustered on its front.
dropped small egg.

small egg beware
there be dragons.
death walks by your youth
birds and wasps.
endangered small egg
beware speckled caterpiller.

speckled caterpiller sup sup sup
survive against the odds
even with cunning tricks
of mutualism with ants and plants
of masks and acids
and toxins and acrid scents
of stripes and colours
and spinning thread
luck be with you
survive by passion vine.

passion vine supping -
the heliconious do.
genuis of the genus
live longer, learn faster.
sophisticated elegant.

the passion approach to metamorphasis
metamorphasis too flutters by
so shake and beat your wings
take flight and live by the passion vine
dance, learn, mate and be.

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