James Navé welcomes poet Dr. G. to the Twice 5 Miles microphone to talk about the provocative poetic notion of what lies between starting and finishing. Of course, as you might have guessed, much lies between any two points. For poets, as Dr. G. points out, the job is to discover the endless possibilities that lie not only in-between but also everywhere you look.
Once you accept the world around you will constantly stimulate your poetic eye, you'll appreciate even more than you do now why poets, like Dr. G., delight in the poetic opportunities the world offers at every turn.
Why is what lies between so important? When you realize that the way you view your surroundings is unique to you and then accept how you interpret what you see is exclusive, then using poetry to translate what you see makes sense.
In this show, you'll find that when Dr. G. and I finish our delightful conversation, I continue talking about the idea of what lies between the things we do, see, and think. I admit I enjoyed filling out the last bit of time musing on the subjects Dr. G. lifted while we were talking.
As I muse, you'll listen to my shift from thinking about what lies in-between to speculating that perhaps the in-between only exists because we say it exists. After all, point A and point B come between two fixed points we make up to help us place ourselves in the infinite cosmic expanse.
And yet, cosmic forces aside, what happens between when we rise and when we sleep, when we say hello and goodbye when we are born and when we die, make a difference. So Dr. G. is ideally on point when she talks about what lies in-between. What we do makes a difference. Perhaps, dare I say it, the in-between may be all that we have. So the question then becomes, what are you willing to do with your in-between? Perhaps you might write a poem or sit in the sun while you enjoy the stuff that lies between you and the rest of the world.
