Feeling…groovy?

(a continuation)

…ok, ok, I know.  But the sense of asking the lamp post “whathca doin?” does point to something important.  Being in the groove changes our relatedness to things, even the inanimate and the mundane. While I prefer groovin’ to feeling groovy, finding the groove has an interesting way of manifesting the imaginal.

As an example, lets take a major league baseball player who is on a hitting streak.  Just the other night listening to the radio I recall an announcer mentioning that “he’s really found his groove.”  The announcer then went on to talk about how hitters see the ball leaving the pitchers hand with hyper clarity when they are on a streak.

And in the stands, the fans begin to confer the status of star (translate: hero archetype) onto the player.  Stories of game winning hits get retold in newspapers (and on blogs).    And eventually records begin to fall which brings into the discussion at least, the potential of immortal status.

So what’s interesting to me is how the announcers phenomenological insight of heightened focus on the ball leaving the pitchers hand is linked to attaining “immortal” status, how the one yields the other.

Regardless of our personal station in life, we can all find examples of when we are really connected to what matters.  My sense is that our portrait for the ages only gets imprinted if we find our groove and live it.