visioning

a wonderful flow of thoughts that inspired me as it came across my email from a midwife in Quebec... Jennie Stonier

"I actually love that the notion of exploring visions...my only objection to the word "vision" is that it is static....it is like the difference between knowing and knowledge. When we write things down and articulate them, knowing becomes knowledge. Not that this is by any means bad...just that there is more.

As they say, "Full truth is deeper than articulation."

And that has been something of an issue for midwives in trying to articulate and define our uniqueness, our specificity, hasn't it? That illusive fluid relationship 'with woman'...the knowing, the storying that passes between the listener and the teller does not truly claim a "truth", but rather a willingness to EXPLORE truth, the reality of the moment, or whatever you want to call it....and then this present moment changes, evolves, is dynamic, not static...probably nonrepeatable...like the quantum world described by physics (and mystics).....so bla bla bla bla...but i am wondering if this does not touch the "essence" we are all circling around when trying to create a "vision" of midwifery....this dynamic mutually interactive personal relationship BETWEEN women-

-between midwife and woman, storyteller and storylistener, whichever each one is called to, holds the potential to change both, to create something new- and perhaps stumble upon a different way to think, to envision, to know, to relate to what we call truth, reality or at least one another.......In any case, midwifery - its visions and way of being with woman appear to be evolving and are quite clearly being challenged in these times. Just like "knowing", i think "visioning" implies something essential yet malleable and subject to context and relationship, something like the midwife's relationship with woman, n'est-ce pas?

~so be the mutable midnite musings of a reluctant convalescent.... "