Cruises for Crushes

Posted on by Lynda Joy

I am tired of posturing and pretense
Loud music and screaming solicitude.
I want to tell you that I keep finding beauty in you,
I want to look into your eyes.
The imposition is implied, and the conversation that is wanted to be had
simply gestures itself through a masked incarnate of what could have been.
All alone, always, all ways.
My presence exclaims itself in silence and wandering.
I am a strange girl, off on the sides, but not hiding,
Joyously absorbing all there is to observe,
Letting the flux of activity unfold around me.
It is nice to relax and still feel everything very intensely.
I hope you understand, but I may be wrong.
After all, this is only a crush along the cruise.

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Lynda Joy is a American PhD student living in Denmark, researching sensorimotor training with multi-modal Augmented Reality technologies by using methodologies from Cognitive Neuropsychology. During her MA, she worked very closely with the Center for Subjectivity Research and studied Phenomenology and its plausible implementations in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science ("naturalized" phenomenology). Between her MA and PhD, she worked with labs in Berlin (Germany), Adelaide (Australia), Tallinn (Estonia), Zurich (Switzerland), and Paris (France). She was a keynote speaker at IEEE VR in 2016, and presented at the Augmented Reality World Expo in 2017. In her spare time, she is currently writing a novel about a virtual simulation of bardo (the stage between life and death to reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism). Her goal is to create experiences with new technologies that help people access more of the embodied subjectivity of another person/persons. Lynda wants her work to revere compassion to help allow the world to realize what a gift it is to both give and receive. Lynda is a strong believer in a better world that we collectively make by sharing a common vision, and that this vision comes through sharing our stories and our truths. That's what this blog is all about.