The Long Conversation - SIGHT SPEED - July 25, 2021 by Riverwest Radio 2 published on 2021-07-27T21:28:27Z Excerpt: DONDON: I didn’t see you at the seedling’s celebration last night. ESMERELDA: Oh, I was there. DONDON: Oh you were? ESMERELDA: Yes. DONDON: Well, I didn’t see you. ESMERELDA: There were a lot of celebrants in attendance. DONDON: Yes. ESMERELDA: And the lighting was complicated. DONDON: Dappled and variations on indigo is how I would describe the lighting last night. ESMERELDA: Yes, me too. Exactly. DONDON: Dappled light makes it difficult to get a sense of the scope of a space. ESMERELDA: Yes, but it is also so pretty. DONDON: Pretty and confusing. ESMERELDA: Yes. DONDON: Sometimes confusing at a party can be so fun. ESMERELDA: I think so too. But just sometimes. I think I would need to feel more comfortable and more welcome and known for confusing. I felt distinctly out of sync last night and wound up leaving after only about half an hour. DONDON: Oh, so maybe that is why I didn’t see you. ESMERELDA: The combination. DONDON: Right. Dappled and unknown. ESMERELDA: Dappled and unknown. DONDON: Dappled and unknown though could also be a safe haven for exploration and research. ESMERELDA: Yes, that is right and I was trying to convince myself to treat it as such, to imagine I was in another country, on another plane, with an unbeknownst to me collection of creatures but…I’m not sure. It just wasn’t working. I was too in between knowing and not knowing and couldn’t cleave the two apart. DONDON: I know exactly what you mean Esmerelda. The deep comfort of being a total stranger unresponsible for their effect on an interpersonal community landscape, graced with the allure of the other. ESMERELDA: Yes. Precisely my friend. OR the alternate comfort and pleasure of being so entirely within the fold that moves and words flow freely and reception is expected. DONDON: I had a conversation with Hit Herbert who explained to me the radically different way that falcons see. ESMERELDA: Radically different from who? DONDON: Most all creatures really. ESMERELDA: Oh. I didn’t know. Maybe that’s why I have such a hard time spending time with any of them. Genre Radio Play