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Dance: An Elixir of Hope

  Tomorrow, I am volunteering at a school to assist a group of adolescent students create a dance together.  The themes they’ve chosen involve embracing our differences and love. Some of the details of the project are still fuzzy.  And … Continue reading

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Conversation: Reaching Across The Space Between

I am standing in dance class, watching the gorgeous, masterful teacher demonstrate the movement for the umpteenth time.  Movement that is seemingly simple, yet turns out to be highly challenging, even for those of us who have been dancing for … Continue reading

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a kind angel (generosity’s luminosity)

The kind man in front of her at the grocery checkout did not realize what he had done in that capacious moment: alchemized her shoulders’ leaden day, but when he turned his gentle generosity to her, seeing or not over the apples … Continue reading

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sensitive (soul)

the soft part of your soul’s skin the tingling part that stings walking gently past each stranger’s pain gazing into the aching drain of loneliness the part that reaches a hand smiling that understands deeply what it means to open and … Continue reading

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