Give Back Your Heart to Itself

Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott, Collected Poems 1948-1984, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986

Trusting the Practice

1. Set the space and the score and the intent with as much grace, love, clarity and humility as is available, this morning.

2. Breathe in, breathe out.

3. Be surprised at what happens.

Listening with the Inner Ear

Gary Snyder says,
As the crickets' soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as are they
to the rocks and the hills
{thanks, Steve}


Soothe and be soothed
See and be seen
Dance and be danced
Move and be moved

Soul Motion practice, this week:
Tuesday in Berkeley, 6-7:30pm
Thursday in Rockridge, 6:30-8pm
Sunday in Sebastopol, 10:15-noon

Isn't That Something?

Rumi says,
I like it when the music happens like this:
Something in His eye grabs hold of
  a tambourine in me,
then I turn and lift a violin in someone else,
  and they turn, and this turning continues;
it has reached you now. Isn't that something?

This week, the grand opportunities to experience the web of interdependence continue: Enter The Ocean Refuses No River this Thursday, 6:30-8pm at Jeffrey Bihr Studio. And this Saturday morning, July 10, in the light-washed, bamboo-floored Eighth Street Studio in Berkeley (Friday Dance Jam's Warm Room), 10am-noon, Soul Motion: Spiral Odyssey, a journey through the Soul Motion landscapes. And to round out the weekend in the same room, Sunday I deejay 7:30-11pm at the venerable (and still unpredictable) Barefoot Boogie. Come shine, reflect, radiate!