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this distant music of the future…

 

you are the center of the universe

Part Two of a two part exercise that began with considering that "You're not that important."

The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

. . . . . . .

So much is because of you. The letters you've written and sent, the touches, the kisses, the parties. Every grain of advice, set of directions, every breakfast for guests. That quarter you tossed into a panhandlers hat could have facilitated the call that turned it all around. Little kindnesses, grand gestures. The doing of your being imprinting place and time. Inevitably.

Consider everything you've ever been thanked for.
Every photo you've been in.
Every corner you've turned.
Every time you've signed your name.

Consider that you radiate. At all times. Consider that what you're feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness that anyone can dip their oar into. You are felt. You are heard. You are seen. If you were not here, the world would be different. Because of your presence, the universe is expanding.

How does that feel to consider?

 

hot song: wonderful, gary go

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"We're just miracles wrapped up in chemicals."

Thanks to Uncle Beefy for pointing out this stylin' love song to humanity.

The video for this song is also wonderful.

View it here.

 

dancing to cancer

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Emotion and passion trumps all: technique, pretense, ego. This dance translates the fight to live, and the essence of real partnership.

The response from the first judge, Nigel, is particularly profound in terms of creativity and courage.

Get your tissues out.

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xo
Danielle
(more...)

 

love after love, by derek walcott

 

yes!

 

go wild

 

guest house, by rumi

This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

- Rumi

 

a poem for my son

mother's day

when you were born
my days
were suddenly full
of trees and apples
of hope
and the machinations of terror

I conceived of space

my world became
the size of a seed
pointed and round
no intruders
a harvest of possibility
only sorrow that I could imagine

my world became
a growing diamond
in your eyes

I conceived of love
I became home

 

meeting yourself…ahhh.