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Left Brain Right Brain

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("Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic) Left Brain Right Brain The two halves of our brain exist like opposites in our world but as wholes within our heads. Sometimes it seems the left - the side of words and logic and manageable things - disregards that there is even an other, a side that is in fact the master that all perceptions filter through, a gate keeper ever watching without judgment, a side that knows but doesn’t say speaking instead in gesture, music and image, that only hint at the truth, that takes us down the rabbit hole to realms unknown yet all our own where sequences build and break and form kaleidoscopic worlds are born where wind can talk and Sun does sing and logic becomes a playful thing that turns to noodles we sell at roadside stands eat with cop sticks that dance to marching bands and feed to snakes as they hum the rhyme of ancient mariners now lost in time… (first published in my second book, LITTLE PINE, 2016)

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/5/2023 6:02:00 PM

interesting...perhaps the grand maestro is seated in the Amygdala; perhaps the light and dark of it all is the real grand maestro, the Egyptians referred to It, as the Eye of Horus (the Pineal gland). Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps.

James Moore
Date: 9/5/2023 8:35:00 PM

I don't know (about the big picture), but it does seem the two halves of the brain are different - polar opposite (fraternal) twins in balance (although the difference/isolation is more extreme in males than females, in other words, females are more integrated), yin/yang incarnate....

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/5/2023 6:03:00 PM

but then again, perhaps not. questions. questions. questions.