Mindfulness Theories & Practices #18: Beyonce–Get In “Formation”
What was it?
It wasn’t the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of 1964
It wasn’t the 50th Anniversary of the Signing of the Civil Rights Act
It wasn’t the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
It wasn’t the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer
It wasn’t the 50th Anniversary of the March from Selma to Montgomery
It wasn’t the 50th Anniversary of the Uprising in Watts
It was the 50th Anniversary of the Super Bowl
It was a half-time show at a football game
It was a narrative that was so contested that offenses and defenses flooded the field, and haters and anti-haters went into battle
In a moment of consumption that was so conspicuous
A FORMATION was formed for all of America and the world to see
Some wanted to avoid looking
Some wanted to pretend what they were seeing didn’t exist
Some wanted to reveal even more — (What about my formation?)
America’s nakedness on TV
Revealing America’s Past Time is not past time
Witnessing a getting-into-formation to create a New Time
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