ABSTRACT
The costume for the piece played a central role, as Gergen Mary wanted to dress in a way that insulated his from the surrounding world. The setting for this piece was a symposium on developments in qualitative inquiry at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association in 2008. A sensuous performance seemed an answer, one that subverted abstract analysis through concrete action. The author feel sometimes that she shrink-wrapped closed off from the earth his remember that feeling in the mountains where his was walking one summer in a field of wildflowers, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Recalling a literary tradition, she wondered if his was seeking what Thoreau and Emerson described as the transcendental aura, which only exists on the page, and never in the flesh. Moments and memories of connection all into the oneness of the universe a thrilling encounter endlessly revolving endlessly creating endlessly ending ephemeral untrustworthy momentary resilient careless coming into being through our we-ness.
