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CELEBRATE

My actual birth was less than ideal. It was an emergency situation and at the time of my birth I was not celebrated. Was I wanted and cherished and loved and taken care of during my life? Yes. But upon arrival? Not so much. I now recognize that I get to re-write the story, that I am wanted and received and celebrated on this planet.

And so I am re-writing the story for myself, through dance, through my mindfulness and awareness practices, through my Shamanic journeys, but really through my community.

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OTHERING #3

How do we other on the daily? By deciding anything about our lives, our time, our needs is more important than anyone else's. We decide that our humanity is more "real," that our experience is the only one that matters. We do this all day, every time someone takes a long time at the cashier in front of us, or is going straight on a red light, when we could turn right. We make strangers "others," less real then we are. What we don't realize is that this is cutting us off from our humanity, from our own heart. 

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