Living Steel

Living steel

what do we really imply by using the term ‘connectiveness’?

I was wondering what would happen if all the steel in high-rise buildings just quit, or got tired one day.

I’ve always taken those girders for granted. But the thing is, on a molecular level they are moving. Which may not be a particularly comforting thought. Especially pertaining to buildings. I mean, energetically speaking, that steel is alive. Which makes me wonder if it is conscious in some way?

As ridiculous as that may sound, are we somehow slave-trading in steel? Because if everything is indeed truly connected, then I think we need to broaden our definitions of being much more considerate to others. Maybe even steel.

Because the thing is, when I look at my bedroom wall with consideration, when I really just look at it, it actually begins to move. Like slow, irregular, modest, gentle waves. Undulating, as though it’s responding to being ‘seen’.

You know how it is when someone really sees you? Sees into you? That sense that washes over you in a way you’ve maybe never felt before? It’s like that. An overwhelming sense of visibility, which occurs when someone sees a glimpse of the real you. And we cry out. Even if inaudibly.

And I wonder if my bedroom walls, or that giant steel beam I signed in 2006, in Lynchburg, Virginia, if they feel the same way.

It was a huge support beam that had been melted down from the destroyed Twin Towers, and reformed at a foundry to become one of the main supporting beams to be installed far below the soon-to-be-built Freedom Tower.

Did it quietly sigh as it was lowered down into its final resting place?

Lynchburg Area Residents Sign Beam

Thousands of area residents traveled to Lynchburg to sign steel beams that will become part of the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower planned for New York’s World Trade Center site.

The beams were forged in Luxembourg and shipped to Banker Steel Co. for additional work. Three of the beams were painted white to display messages from the public.

A day earlier, New York Gov. George E. Pataki and 100 steelworkers signed their names and held a ceremony honoring the completion of the first nine beams. — Source