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To open a narrative that has become too tight requires techniques, practices… rituals, even. Sometimes you even throw it in the fire. For us, the unstitching part takes the techniques we know to erase the tracks of time, to aerate what has become sedimented, and to cast on new stitches.
In educational theory, this kind of shared, experiential process is often described as a community of practice: a group bound by shared curiosity, reflection, and embodied participation. Over time, that continuity creates not just learning, but belonging — a place where the community itself becomes the teacher.
This is the deeper meaning I find in the modern health guideline that recommends adults do “muscle-strengthening activities of moderate or greater intensity involving all major muscle groups on two or more days a week.” The phrase sounds clinical, but what it’s really describing is how we maintain the integrity of the waters that hold us up — how we keep life moving through us.