Juggled in the park today for a little while, not intending to attract any attention - just to practice. And a bunch of kids ran over and watched and interacted and threw acorns in the air and sometimes at me though I told them to stop. They always ask how long you’ve been doing it. Kids have a completely different concept of the passage of time than adults. Then they’ll want to know if you can juggle other objects and will hunt around for real world examples, or if none are handy may start naming objects not found immediately in the vicinity. One time we talked about what kinds of wild animals would be good and bad for juggling. Rattlesnakes, we agreed, would be bad.

I realized new things about my juggling patterns and their tempos themselves by having to interact a little bit with the kids. Talking to people and making sure that you don’t get hit in the eye with an acorn out of your peripheral vision tends to take your focus off what your hands are doing and allows them to act on their own within the pattern according to the natural timing required by you to move your hands arms and body in those motions.

I spent a little while practicing doubles, where one club spins around twice instead of once, and the other two remain at single spins. It causes you to have to wait a tiny bit on your regular throw pattern, so the other one has time to spin. But maybe its like wiggling into cut time or something. Where two of the regular pattern get mashed up inside against one of the regular pattern, each occupying the same temporal space. I almost used the word complementary there, but decided not to. Is that even what cut time is? I noticed afterwords when I went to 7-11 to buy an ice cream sandwich that my body had developed some kind of inbuilt timing theory about how wide the door would swing based on the amount of effort I exerted and the relative weight of the door. My brain was trying to juggle the door!