I was updating the tagline of my twitter profile the other
day. Most of my networking platforms gathered dust for 6 months during the
move. Without much conscious deliberation, I added balance point surfer to the list after author, publisher, etc. It
wasn’t until a twitter contact queried whether that was some new variation on
riding waves on a board that I thought about the precise meaning of what I’d so
casually listed.
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| Are you riding forward on the balls of your feet, or back, reeling on your heels? |
Balance is a common meme in my muse. My new residence aboard
a sailboat has only increased that focus. Here is what I replied to the twitter
query:
balance
point surfer – tracking the moving nexus of tipping point lines, between
health-conscious and health nut, stressed and too-laid-back, east and west,
intro and extro-vert, logical and mystical...
standing,
balancing on that spot, knees bent, leaning forward, [intuiting/gauging/feeling]
through wave, current and wind-born spin-drift.
That’s not particularly precise. But descriptions of the
myriad forces arrayed on either side of the scales could go on indefinitely. It’s
also a many-layered puzzle, almost chaotic, julia set-like. Almost any term
used to describe a particular weight can itself be sub-divided into balanced
components. The process that carried too far, is dizzying (and unbalanced.)
