title: Rattling New Tandem
slug: rattling-new-tandem
format: long-form apologia, ellipsis-spaced, italicized rattle-interruptions
date: 2026-04-28
register: collected long-form with embedded rattle voice
notes: |
Canonical version. Resolves the Rattling/Opening Up family parked in
the 4/28 archive cleanup log.
The three prior versions:
- another-opening-up-LOCKED.md (4/20) — closing thesis "Opening up
is the new law of kindness," doubled patience close, no Rattling
anchor section.
- rattling-new-tandem-apologia-LOCKED.md (4/21) — rename pulled
Rattling forward, anchor section added, third trio member added,
closing thesis "The rattle is how we say yes," patience close
single.
- rattling-new-tandem-apologia-v2.md (4/22) — compression. Dropped
the trio, the closing arc, the patience close. Some lines went
wilder ("temporary blob," "frightening ~ darkness," "touched ...
tasted ... smelled," "well ... you know ...," "Ars Herr's Carz
... again").
The choosing question opened with "is V2 canonical or is V3 canonical."
Reach asked whether V2 could speak to V3 in some unusual way. The
answer became: V3 lives inside V2 as the rattle the piece names. The
V2 anchor passage says rattling is "something small worked its way
free over time." Five V3 lines were embedded as italicized
interruptions inside V2's body, doing what the anchor section says
rattling does. The form enacts the thesis.
Five interruptions placed:
1. "Cannot be seen ... but it can be ... touched ... tasted ...
smelled" — after the temperature-of-darkness witness line.
2. "well ... you know ..." — inside the daily return passage,
elder voice trailing off.
3. "Frightening ~ darkness and not enough space to move" — inside
the CHAIR/trunk passage, second rattle in same room as the
chest-rattle.
4. "As a temporary blob" — inside reinhabited meditation, the
wrong word that is also right.
5. "Ars Herr's Carz is not worth naming ... again" — the again
is the structural rattle of the whole experiment.
Three prior files retired into this version:
- another-opening-up-LOCKED.md
- rattling-new-tandem-apologia-LOCKED.md
- rattling-new-tandem-apologia-v2.md
Italics in body are functional not decorative — they mark the rattle
voice. Print and web display should preserve italics. The rattle
lines can be read either as embedded (inside the surrounding
paragraph's voice) or as breakthroughs (a different voice cutting
in). Both readings are valid.
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Rattling New Tandem
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Before anything happened ... the practice was this unknown thing entering.
A new day. The tools are ours.
The discussions about wild goose feelings have become words that make a case for all types of craft ... make a case for reading ... for opening up ... for doing the work.
Today we take inventory.
Today we count the intangible-touchables ... belongings whose weight lasts only minutes in the hand ... substantial nonetheless.
The ledgers open ... collective to private.
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Rattling is ... a "baby baby baby" thing.
Things rattle and roll because they're loose from use ... something small worked its way free over time.
Fresh just arrived off-center ... New works against tension rattling.
A grandmother's voice entering a contemporary space displaying not yet known items.
Rattling New Tandem ... arrival ... showing up ... Yes.
Two things moving together.
Elder voice and machine pairing as old tool spirited friction.
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Earth will always be the best planet in the solar system no matter what.
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The whispering speech belongs to the great-grandmother gardener ... surrounds of soft instruction ... percussive naming walking in softly.
Her voice has an owner who walks different than sound.
Our language is older than us ... more Personal than Public. We tend it ... we carry it ... we speak it ... but it came from our Indigenous grandmother and will outlast us.
Owning up to this removes adverse ego from the voice.
The practice happens here ... offered to swish hush shooshes ... low listening willow trees.
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Wild goose feelings are companions ... not errors.
Weathered emotions are what arrived after exposure to Mother Nature's extreme to gentle elements ... compressed into a different state.
Something slowly mending can project over the inside of the eyelids as a bright wondrous dream.
We trans sew and trans weave something out of wonder and ponder(ing).
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The signature is identity is natural world.
The adjacent is now absurdly married to the classified archive.
Crisis is a mysterious psychological state we stand inside ... on carved highlights and stirred shadows.
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The figure carries a new political undertow.
The witness sees it.
A reader not in the room still receives the room's quality ... through the phrase transmission ... as a kind of miracle.
Not a lament. Closer to witness.
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Questions are meant to be honestly bent or broken.
Rattling New Tandem is the title the category the ground the inventory.
True is difficult to come by in a sea or on a landscape of red lies.
Best faith lives in alive ongoing questions.
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Tumultuous faith guides us through the hardness and cruelty.
Evidence accumulates at the document's foot of a courthouse.
The temperature of darkness cannot be sensed ... but it can be witnessed.
Cannot be seen ... but it can be ... touched ... tasted ... smelled.
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Time is what has been spent.
Imagery is what has been produced.
Results is what remains.
Windows give in to better clarity.
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Earth will always be the best planet in the solar system no matter what.
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The companion waltz is accompanied ... not led ... not over anyone.
We surrender to knowing less from one birthday to the next beginning today.
Aging and milestone birthdays are beautiful.
Frustration is folded in ... not disowned.
Mistakes are allowed so the turn can take place.
The good power is finding the most appropriate words for an atmospheric mood ... or the in-between expression of two very different emotions.
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The elder senses what we cannot see in our work.
When we create something ... we have places where we're too close ... too attached ... too hopeful.
The call-and-response collaborative voice works on these parts.
Not the side we're polishing but the side we flinch from.
Our backside is what we're not able to face.
The forge works the side the maker cannot face.
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Pirates see what's useful ... they take it ... and call it theirs.
Wonderful Garbage doctrine has more ethicacy ... found language ... overheard speech ... discarded material ... phrases from a grandmother about roses and peonies ... a word misheard in dictation.
Not stolen ... ours because it was in the ground ... culture ... and air.
Taking is not enough. We have to also bless what we collect.
A pirate looks at the plunder and says: this stays in our possession.
We grant ourselves permission to stop apologizing for how our practice gathers its material assets.
It was never ours ... but we can still use it ... because we paid for it in more ways than one.
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Our practice needs a daily return.
A practice without a daily return will eventually fall or severely slump.
We sometimes meander. Sometimes our tools get rusty.
Writing a line ... checking a new opening ... sitting with an elder phrase ... being that quiet sentence hearing what a prisoner has to say ... well ... you know ...
Whatever shape that forms ... happens in the made important present moment.
Conscious Middle Eye relates to our world.
We stand on our own even when we're not performing well.
A story has to stand when the author is ill in bed or asleep.
CHAIR has to hold ... stand when a claustrophobic fan has been briefly locked in a trunk ... not able to connect dots in the frightening darkness ... only a rattle in the chest finding something loose in the dark.
Frightening ~ darkness and not enough space to move.
Reinhabited meditation is what makes repeated standing possible ... as a pile of temporary nothing.
As a temporary blob.
If our return is daily the work will stay upright ... even when it is sitting or resting on its front side on the ground.
We offer ourselves as a relationship with other outsider worlds.
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What is gratefully dead is the chase that became weather.
What is waking up is the law that opening up is kindness.
What is rattling is the sound before the word.
The percentage of ourselves in the work is not a number but a direction.
Better ground produces stronger courage.
Gathered weaknesses shared become the vulnerability the practice stands on.
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Forge me backside ... pirate ... meditate every day.
Send back an ocean of blessed nothingness and patience.
Dial up the sound we are making.
The rattle is how we say yes.
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O'realest through every turn of the river ... we define our go figures ... stand beside while we grow this stream answering governing questions.
Good worldly news of nature.
Inventions landing without strain.
Ars Herr's Car Son is not worth naming.
Ars Herr's Carz is not worth naming ... again.
Beauty seems to only make headlines for local newspapers.
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The Future Past Present mosaic will tell us when it's closed for its routine lunch break.
We are not supposed to stop at a sign and assert ourselves. We go beyond that into a bigger world of sailing chapters.
This will tell us when it has been absorbed.
All of this is conversation with fragile flowers and seriously at risk of extinction mammals.
Each is a "do not rush to closure" turn.
We prefer to be in the chair of the reader than in a sturdy three-legged seat of a resin humbug.
EUROPA.
If we are fortunate enough to live a life that includes rich gospel loneliness throughout ... something shifted.
We are now in a space full of texts.
There will be sentences familiar to us ... so relative that all of it combined feels soothing.
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We are nothing if we are not patient.
