Notes on Fences and Type Eight The Protector
Made From Bone
by Mark Nepo
When I can be the truth,
it grows more and more clear
when it is necessary to tell the truth.
That is, when I have access to the place
with me that is lighted, I don't have
to speak heatedly. I can just give away
warmth. When I am still enough to brush
quietly with eternity, I don't have to
speak of God. I can just offer peace
to those around me.
A tree grows so it can convey wind.
It is not the wind. And a person grows
in order to convey spirit.
They say that animals recharge
their innocence each time they hoof
the earth. And we are reborn
each time we touch what matters.
by Mark Nepo
When I can be the truth,
it grows more and more clear
when it is necessary to tell the truth.
That is, when I have access to the place
with me that is lighted, I don't have
to speak heatedly. I can just give away
warmth. When I am still enough to brush
quietly with eternity, I don't have to
speak of God. I can just offer peace
to those around me.
A tree grows so it can convey wind.
It is not the wind. And a person grows
in order to convey spirit.
They say that animals recharge
their innocence each time they hoof
the earth. And we are reborn
each time we touch what matters.
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Fences/Type Eight
Kinesthetic Planning Type: Joined by 9s and 1s. All have a NOW/WHAT-IS/MATERIAL orientation (alleviating a lack of control)
Wings: Wanting a full-force life and authority comes from two goals: 7 “Freedom from Restriction” and 9 “For All”
Primary Value: Justice and Strength
Avoidance: Personal Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
Archetypal Energy: Gods of War (Athena), Kamala Harris, Francis McDormand and Denzel Washington, Awkwafina, Sandra Bullock
Style: All on or All off— go big or go home; call a spade a spade; direct imperative speech often mistaken as anger (but is felt as passion); Mack Trucks filled with Marshmallows; What You See Is What You Get (but what I see may be all I know — challenge: denial)
Challenge: Not knowing how much force to bring; misuse of force
Virtue: Magnanimity, greatness of heart, protection, vulnerability
258 Harmonic: Strategic wisdom used to level (+) or annihilate (-) the playing field (Type 5) can join an unhealthy obsession (-) or sweet care (+) (Type 2)
Kinesthetic Planning Type: Joined by 9s and 1s. All have a NOW/WHAT-IS/MATERIAL orientation (alleviating a lack of control)
Wings: Wanting a full-force life and authority comes from two goals: 7 “Freedom from Restriction” and 9 “For All”
Primary Value: Justice and Strength
Avoidance: Personal Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
Archetypal Energy: Gods of War (Athena), Kamala Harris, Francis McDormand and Denzel Washington, Awkwafina, Sandra Bullock
Style: All on or All off— go big or go home; call a spade a spade; direct imperative speech often mistaken as anger (but is felt as passion); Mack Trucks filled with Marshmallows; What You See Is What You Get (but what I see may be all I know — challenge: denial)
Challenge: Not knowing how much force to bring; misuse of force
Virtue: Magnanimity, greatness of heart, protection, vulnerability
258 Harmonic: Strategic wisdom used to level (+) or annihilate (-) the playing field (Type 5) can join an unhealthy obsession (-) or sweet care (+) (Type 2)
- What was your experience of the parents and other characters in Fences? Did your perspectives change throughout the play?
- Where do you see themes of vulnerability, injustice and justice, the misuse or appropriate use of force in this play?
- How do you experience vulnerability? In yourself, in others?
- How much has justice, force and the need to protect the innocent been a part of your life?
- How do you modulate your own force?
- What does this play offer you as new knowledge about Type Eight themes?