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Chhuckung By allowing the place and inquiry to determine some of the methods or help methodology, it is that emergence I seek to examine or experience. As I am walking right now and breathing, catching my balance on top of rocks that are strewn down here, once part of a larger glacier. I am reacting with this land and ever so slightly this land reacts to me right here ...

Anthropogenic enactments like my plane ride, to the reactions of human/more-than-human, are [unrecognized, silent] relations. Reactions occur, however, in minute details, the obscure and perhaps little realized movements and shifts or changes that emerge within/from more-than-human and human relationships. Here with my footsteps on the trail the dirt falls away and leaves a print of the soles of my shoes. I'm not making that imprint necessarily, nor is the dirt - rather it’s a reaction in concert. Many feet have stepped on this very trail, these very spots and similar reactions [intra-actions] have occurred. Through this movement the trail changes, the rocks are worn down, the dirt kicked up and removed and settled down elsewhere. This dirt is so much more than the term dirt in discourse considers. It is vibrant with color and movement and history - it sparkles with glacial minerals [sparkling feldspar]. It reminds me of what [my friend] once called Himalayan fairy dust, as it covers my shoes, skins, clothing, hat and gives me and others a sparkle as the sun shines down. Beauty in these reactions. Agency in these movements of dirt. 

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