This animation has been wanting to emerge since it first appeared as a storyseed c.1979 in the original eleprocon chronicles. A long since disappeared paper journal holding sketches illustrating the desire to live into a story that was sneaking into view.
Frustratingly it started and stopped pretty quickly within a period. What was it that appeared in this moment that slipped out of time? In this kinpiphany so clearly!
Most of those pages remained empty thereafter curiously calling until this very moment sphere and now.
Going full circle, connecting the dots over the years has lead to a regenerative question mark, an exclamation mark making its point, all the while the luminous periods marking their sense of BE•AMing…
What started as a simple question unearthed what was thought to be the answer, but that just led to more questions?!?
It was overwhelming when the period made its appearance.
A feeling so frustrating it obfuscated the ability to envision to see past this period.
It felt to be the sense of no way out… but in.
To begin again. And again. And again.
Those three marks were not just one period after another but the suggestion of more…
The invitation to fill in the blanks, to wonder what’s next…
Where’s this story headed?
What’s my role in it!
How will we get there?
In the quiet corners of imagination where thoughts take shape and meaning dances with mystery, lived three remarkable marks. Shy symbols be they not - they are the elders of deep wisdom: a circle, a dot, and a line expressing how we experience life itself.
The first was Question Mark, curved like a shepherd's staff, always leaning forward as if peering into the unknown. Question Mark embodied our eternal curiosity, that beautiful human trait that makes us ask "why?" and "what if?" It reminded us that every great journey begins with wondering, and that the courage to question reveals paths we never knew existed.
Then came Exclamation Point, standing tall with unbridled passion, trailing a spark of pure energy declaring “eureka!” Here was the mark of expression and emotion, teaching us that life pulses brightest when we dare to feel deeply, when we embrace our moments of clarity with full hearts and open spirits. It showed us how fleeting yet powerful those moments of knowing can be.
And then there’s Period, perfect and complete in its simplicity. Period brought the wisdom of pause, of moments when understanding settles in like silence after the final note of a symphony. It reminds us that sometimes the deepest wisdom comes not from seeking or exclaiming, but from simply being still.
Together, these three marks dance an eternal dance. But the true magic isn't just in their individual wisdom - it’s in the spaces between them, in the ellipsis that connects their stories. For in those three dots lay the greatest wisdom of all. That a beautiful question may lead to a moment of deep knowing... which leads to peaceful understanding... which gives birth to new questions.
That's what the ellipsis teaches us - that wisdom flows in an endless cycle of questioning, discovering, and reflecting. It whispers that no ending is truly final, that every period is just a pause before the next question, and that the space between knowing and not knowing is where the real magic lives...
P.S. This animation has been burned into my mind since I first imagined it over 50 years ago. Elusive as it has been to capture, the muse appeared just before the SoCal fires erupted. The confluence of years of stories, of a recent family creation session, and the sense of beaming the mythelium from NYC encouraged the vision to fruition this week. And then the LA fires burst onto the scene. I know this won’t help put them out but they might calm you a bit…
The Eleprocon Chronicles
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