Vale of Health... several people camped in bivouacs by (the) pond waiting for whatever fish (who lie there) will bite in the stillness of late evening...
...an owl hoots in the wooded valley close by...
...the sky is very pale, and still, and without cloud...
...the leaves have reached their maximum growth for this year... and soon they will begin to fall...
...a man walks by... and (like many of us) he walks irregularly with jerky movements indicating defective posture, and thus restricted life...
...after experiencing the Alexander technique one tends to see misuse of the self in most people... or in everyone?... to become aware of it in oneself is his gift to all of us...
F Matthias Alexander, The Use of the Self, Methuen, London 1932, and several later republications.
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