# @spoonofsesame on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMZhg9OO7U8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59692755-spoonofsesame-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-22T05:45:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Christin Jely Gilbert (@spoonofsesame) — https://gondola.cc/spoonofsesame

## Caption

What if paradox is a spaciousness?
A place where seemingly opposite truths meet, not to cancel each other out but to hold space. I don’t have answers. Only this quiet, radical question. An invitation to think beyond binary logic. 💭

A dance between tension and release keeps reminding me that two things can be true at once.
💨I feel the wind shift. I see the rope tighten. I hear the water slap against the hull.
And suddenly, every part of my body is listening. Almost as if the line had slipped past my gloves.
⛵️My eyes move from the winch to the flick of the telltale to the curve of the mainsheet.
I notice when the rhythm is disrupted, when the sail pulls harder and the boat heels more. We ease the sheet and shift our weight. 

Maybe that’s what it means to stay open while everything pulls at once:
🌊To brace without hardening.
🌊To let part of us that pulls and the part that listens belong in the same moment. 

The mind and body can stay open to the tension in both directions when there is enough space.
This is the space where longing and gratitude meet, where my skin remembers how to listen and touch becomes a language.

Because we made room for it all to belong. 
What else could it be....and still be true?

“Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.” – Carl Jung

#MeditationInMotion #NauticalTheme #WomenWhoSail #TheArtOfSlowingDown #WestCoastSailing #SailBC #WestCoastLife #BCCoast #PacificNorthWest #SailingPhotography #EmbodiedWriting #SomaticPoetics

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theartofslowingdown, bccoast, pacificnorthwest, somaticpoetics, westcoastsailing, sailingphotography, meditationinmotion, embodiedwriting, womenwhosail, sailbc, westcoastlife, nauticaltheme

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