Monthly Archives: February 2015

brave and bold

out beyond the shallows and the sturdy sand and stone, beyond familiar, oft told, well known formed from quiet, strength fluidity, no tepid takers these everyday everywhere heroes of imagination of intrepidity adventure in the infinite beyond within and beyond “The … Continue reading

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Radiating Possibility

Last summer, I wandered into a lovely shop. To be greeted by this small wall hanging*, which made my heart leap:   Y E S! Ahhh, contemplating possibility.  Love it. Simply saying that potent word swirls a boundlessness around and … Continue reading

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To Feel Free: Dance, Dance

I dance to feel free. In that, I am like the gifted and gorgeous teacher, Lisa Race.  Who told us that she loves to dance to experience freedom.  Yes! But when she said this today, I had forgotten this key … Continue reading

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leap

you can see that this isn’t working, he says, that you’ll have to try something else; but which path untrodden? and who will I be if I let (this) go? my nearly forgotten daily companion materializes whoosh! the hawk unfoots … Continue reading

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the rainbows inside us

spry rainbows dancing across the listening walls   internal echoes  

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Ease and Grace: Life Lessons from Dancing

Ahhhhhh, yes. Ease. Isn’t it cool that the right amount of intentional effort so often hums us and our lives along gracefully? While too much effort can actually tauten and impede us? We kind of clog the flow when we … Continue reading

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lion hearted

they say that love heals all wounds yet after so many decades of red alert can it re-teach your heart? a small child shivers in a forever blaze white hot and cool blue rage don’t  misstep! it’s a hair trigger– the … Continue reading

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It’s About Rapture!

That’s been my mantra for the past ten days. Spurred by watching the iconic “The Power of Myth,” with the late visionary, Joseph Campbell. It’s about rapture! My shorthand for remembering to keep an eye on the ball of what’s … Continue reading

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dancing gadfly

    she’s always stirring forgotten pots petering sparks make life sizzle “You were once wild here.  Don’t let them tame you.” ~Isadora Duncan

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lair

it will seem to be a kitchen unremarkable and outmoded the clutter shuttering so you may not notice her fierceness lurking dancing under the display the bowls spooning, the fleshly ghosts of every meal aswirl, but she is there unfurling to … Continue reading

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