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Sidewalk Study ★ DC

Dear neighbors — This summer, we’re partnering with the School of Radical Attention to bring SIDEWALK STUDIES to Washington, DC. Part walking meditation, part humanities seminar, SIDEWALK STUDY will help us cultivate the poetic, the spirited, the irreducible forms of shared presence beyond commodity, beyond policy.
We’re after sacred attention: that portal to the infinite, that vital precursor to anything meaningful we do, be it love or labor. The process is simple: we’ll meet up at Point A, read an excerpt, wander to Point B, practice together in a bespoke attentional exercise, and then discuss.
Won't you walk with us?
Attentively, Kanika, Josh & Aaron
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Our theme for August is PORTALS! We'll be hosting the following Studies:

1. Portals to Lost Time

In his book Swann’s Way, part of his larger In Search Of Lost Time collection, Marcel Proust talks about the phenomenon of sense memory: the involuntary recollection of old memories, triggered by random objects, smells, and sensations in the world.


Come ponder how the physical and the visceral dimensions of everyday experience can become inadvertent portals to a past that would have otherwise been lost to us. Our stroll through Georgetown may even include a pastry, or two…

Text: Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way

Date: Monday, August 17th @ 6pm

Location: Georgetown (starting at Boulangerie Christophe)​

2. Architecture of Time

In his soaring meditation on The Sabbath, mystic and philosopher Abraham Heschel builds us a portal to a special time zone, where we're invited to find rest and renewal. Not a date but an atmosphere, this "foretaste of paradise" offers an alternative to the calendrical homogeneity that we've become so accustomed to in our Gcal daze.


In this study, we'll attend to the construction sites of time, how ritual and environment shape the way we inhabit it. How do we make thresholds between ordinary and extraordinary time? What does it mean to cultivate temporal diversity? How might we build moats around our clocks that protect the islands of stillness so vital to attention liberation?


Text: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath

Date: Sunday, August 30th @ 5pm

Location: Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park with Kanika & Josh

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