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I love idea of knowing the world through dance! Little Women popped up recently in my home. One of my favorites too, along with A Swiftly Tilting Planet/Wrinkle In Time

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I know! I'm going to try imagining myself as a bird!!

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Oh I love that! I just love that!!!

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I love that too, knowing the word through dance. A beautiful idea.

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So beautiful!

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Oct 23, 2023·edited Oct 23, 2023Liked by Jane Ratcliffe

I love your typo - as a queen of typos that often turn out to be cool :)

To know the word through dance

The word embodies as dance

The dancing wu li

The dancing christ

Laughing buddha

Dancing Sovereign Divinity

The word becomes you and me

The word expressing in every diversity, all humanity shining

Sovereignty

The word Dances you, becomes me

And the world dances itself beyond duality

FREE FREE FREE

To be you To be me

The Word becomes words

And Dances us FREE

In our DIVINITY

Surrendering to Divine Will

I AM danced

By the word dancing me into the world

To dance the world free

Of all oppression by the power of my word

Heaven on earth

Where Sovereignty is honored in every step

Unity is felt as we

At honoring the love we are

While letting others be free

The word dances us into unity that honors Sovereignty, Lovingly

And dance and dance and dance until we turn ourselves into the Light

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Hah! Yes, wonderful typo. And beautiful poem!!

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Thank you for running with this in such a delightful way! You've now made me think of East Coker and the dancers there http://www.davidgorman.com/4quartets/2-coker.htm

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What do you think T.S. Elliot is saying? It's a funny time to read it...with everything dying but not dying. The backyard tree is almost naked. It goes first into color and first to strip bare and it was doomed long ago and came back. And I love how alive it is through winter when the sky bores through it with light, more stark and radiant than all summer long. There is a koan from my favorite book, The Sophia Code, which the Divine Mother's voice asserts that her love was there in the womb of no-thing (nothingness) listening for your soul's asking to be born before you (your soul) was ever created.

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I read this part of Four Quartets as being a celebration, or at least acknowledgement, of the changing but also repeating, cycles, rhythms and seasons of life. I first read it when I was just a boy living on a farm, so lines like "Dung and death" seemed excitingly familiar.

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Yes, I couldn't tell whether it was a reveling in or a submission to or a celebration or simply an elucidation of cycle...

How did growing up on a farm shape you? I loved learning that a lot of mushrooms we eat were first discovered on dung! Did you know Beatrix Potter's role in discovering mycelium?

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Thank you, back to you! And you're welcome! :) :) I'll take a look in a little <3

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Oct 23, 2023·edited Oct 23, 2023Liked by Jane Ratcliffe

Thank you Jane! Love this story by @Christine Barker. How she feels, receives, expresses and communicates with inner self and the world! Love to you!

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I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I know, I was so moved by how Christine experiences the world. There are so many different ways to be a human!

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Oct 23, 2023Liked by Jane Ratcliffe

OMGosh. I need an imaginary spirit bird! Or maybe a wise imaginary guide dog. Something....

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Yes! Me, too!!

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Wow! This is beautiful;

Tidbid that I don't like:

That at times I get too rigid with ideas that hinders collaboration because of my obsession to be understood rather than to understand

Dancing in the kitchen and singing in the shower I will do more of

I love and appreciate my partner, she is my rock 🙏

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So beautifully put: "my obsession to be understood rather than to understand." Gosh, if we could all address this, the world would change dramatically for the better, I think!!

Yes, to more dancing and singing. And I'm glad you have such a lovely partner!

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