https://madronaholisticarts.ca/new-folder daily 0.75 2015-07-08 https://madronaholisticarts.ca/continuum-movement-blog daily 0.75 2026-06-20 https://madronaholisticarts.ca/continuum-movement-blog/2026/5/7/uniqueness-a-seeking-on-the-edge monthly 0.5 2026-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/534977dfe4b05abb16c03ff3/8d6a7d80-693f-4f3a-b080-f622f377fec8/tree+on+saltrsring.jpg Madrona Holistic Arts - Blog - Uniqueness ~ A Seeking on the Edge - This morning I received a text from my daughter, “I adore floating candles. So enchanting.” Right away I was with her picturing the dancing flames, fire and water together…the enchantment of it all. In this brief message I felt her presence, her characteristic way of responding to life, from the heart with clarity and simplicity. I contemplated the art of meaningful communication and how its essence seems to rise froma felt sense of connection with our uniqueness. Next, my attention went to the natural world of my immediate surroundings. Looking out the kitchen window, I saw framed a low-hanging branch of a cedar tree, a single graceful bough stirred by the breeze. My cat lay curled on the chair beside me. Both were unquestionably and unabashedly expressing their uniqueness – the only way of being they know – with every movement and in every moment. My attention shifted to their adaptations to the environment. I sensed a steadfast vitality in approaching limits – the cedar tree gripping the edge of an eroding bank, seeking stability where it could be found – and my cat, abandoned as a kitten and left to fend for himself. Both flourish and express their wild uniqueness as part of the larger web of life. What joy to behold any life form engaged in the seeking process, learning its way into full expression, like a “concentrate” in which uniqueness becomes visible. Many times this uniqueness can seem “diluted,” and hard to trace in a sea of sameness – yet without the sameness there would be no distinction giving rise to uniqueness; one cannot exist without the other. Recently I watched a video clip of a microscopic organism going about the business of living. Gradually, things began to change…movements slowed, metabolic processes stopped, pieces of the ciliate began to tear away…the organism was dying, becoming part of its surroundings and returning to equilibrium. To be alive, to exist, is to creatively resist returning to sameness and blending with the surrounding environment. 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