This morning I also went to California,
Oregon, the Grand Canyon and Cherokee, North Carolina and I wasn’t
on the internet. Typically I’d be grumpy
about thirty degrees in April but this morning’s chill stirred something
else.
The chill stirred memory, body
memory of early mornings past of stepping out of a camper in my twenties in
crisp Northern California air and then nearly twenty years ago of sitting on a boulder near sunrise at Oregon’s Crater Lake. Then I was reminded of the Fall of 2010 when we slept under the full moon in the bottom of
the Grand Canyon in an unexpected chill and just last year sitting wrapped in a
blanket on a little balcony by the Oconaluftee
River as the sun rose
over Cherokee.
The dance of morning’s chill and embodied awareness
unexpectedly caught me and pleasantly transported me along Memory’s river. This is especially good for someone who's lived much of her life in her head disconnected from my physical self.
To dance through my life, I must be in my
body fully awake and aware and seeing myself as the stars see me. They want me to remember this flesh and blood vessel I came in with and for all its equipped - dancing, sensing, seeing and feeling with a bit of thinking on the side.
The stars say: Be in your body. That's why on Earth you chose to arrive.
(Click "Following Love's Lead" for pt. 6)
(Click "Following Love's Lead" for pt. 6)
-Dawn! The Good News Muse, 13 April 2012
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