khay! quietness...

khay!
quietness and silence...

can quietness
and silence
and withdrawal
be forms of resistance or social change?
is it possible that community cultural development work, as life work, can have slower approaches - so slow that there are long periods of quiet?

maybe i am emerging from four months of relative quietness.
but i have grown to love the mundane and the detail of the everyday...

yesterday morning
walking on the footpath
a leaf fell in front of me.
i saw that yellow leaf fall.

if i did not include my participation, in the last line, i am not necessarily there. (is this self-indulgence?)
can complex issues of agency and authorship in cultural production and social change be that simple?

quietness facilitates listening...

the collective 'we' have always had an eternal focus on 'speaking out'... eg. 'who is speaking'? and the struggle to speak 'in your own voice'.

i listened to old freire in the mid 70s and then the early 90s - models of education, action research and cultural action primarily require approaches of listening before development and action.

maybe 'who is listening?' becomes a significant shift in perspective.
mmm...
have i even been listening to myself?