The Priestess Is In

Dance! Dance! Dance! Giving and Making Peace.

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Letting go into Dance… not just the art of Dance but the thrill of it, is good for us.

It’s aerobic, certainly. But to lose ourselves in the music is good for our souls… To do that in the company of others is excellent.

And just like singing together brings our hearts into once place, so does dancing together!

But have a caution about the music you choose. Choose music with not only melody but also lyrics that set your heart to dancing as well as your feet.

We need to dance! We need to Peace! Together. As so many songs say: Just Keep Dancin’!

Let Music Transport Us to Peace

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Here’s what we need: We need to listen to live music. We need to dance to live music. We need to make live music. And damn it we need to sing.

Music takes us places we can’t imagine. And sometimes that’s as mundane as your living room with a guitar.

Let’s let music move us. What is that that EG Kight sings? “Let the blues move you to a better attitude.” And not just the blues. Bach. Beat. Beatles. Whatevah!

“All we are singing, is give Peace a chance.” We always think we sing that to someone else. We need to sing it to ourselves. Peace.

Walk Away for Peace

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Technology has changed our lives for the better. I love my devices, ‘deed I do.

I love the connection they permit; it’s extraordinary.

I love the processing they do; our lives are opened beyond our understanding by their power to crunch and sort and deliver.

And yet, they are time sucks. I control my phone, ipad, and kindle a bit because I ruthlessly prevent them from anything but certain tasks. But I work most frequently on the laptop… and it’s got rabbit holes galore. They’re gloriously exciting, but rabbit holes lead to warrens from which I emerge only hours later.

It’s so easy to be there and not here, now.

It’s hard to balance. It’s where I do my best work. It’s where I get my best information. It’s also where I am the most easily distracted.

I learn so much there. And yet. And yet. And yet, it is face to face that I get the most accomplished. Unless, of course, it’s not! Ah, it’s the dance on the edge of the sword, isn’t it?

How and where do I give Peace a chance — Peace which is, after all, made between People. Let’s keep dancing. Let’s keep dancing for Peace.

 

Commonality for Fun and Peace

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Now when there are things dividing us, let us also look for what unites us.

We need to explore our common humanity a bit, even as we work toward a better world.

The journey we’re on is a long one. Let’s find a way to have fun with each other as we move haltingly forward.

Slurping spaghetti is one way… find more. Peace depends on such ridiculousness.

So Many Peace Rhythms

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Blessed are the storytellers.

That’s a sentence that needs to stand alone. Blessed are they who give us a new look at life, a new perspective.

Vance Gilbert? He gives us a new look and a new beat.

Peace Rhythms. They’re not all straightforward. They’re fun, they’re fascinating, they’re sad, they’re joyous, they’re a whole lot of things. But they’re all Peace. Let’s listen. Let’s dance!

Family Peace

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Family is the people you’re born with. There are those for whom this is a bitter regret. Some are very lucky. And most of us get along.

Family is also people you choose. Hopefully our birth experience, whether good or bad, leads us to good choices in those we choose to love.

Love is an incredible gift to offer and to receive.

Families these days look different from families 20 years ago. Our faces are not all mirror images of each other. What we have that allows others to see our lineage is our smiles and our actions.

It’s a wonderful thing, isn’t it. Families, Peace. Let’s make the best of them!

Down to the River to Peace

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Wow. So, I’m having one of those brain too tired to think days. There’s been too much going on in my life. All I have, since thinking about the river and writing this title, was a mental image of all the kids from everywhere, lined up along the bank of the river, exchanging lines in a chant back and forth. Peace, Peace, Peace… (that’s not what I was hearing, when I was envisioning this… but, brain problem, remember?)

After a restorative nap, I may need to go down to the river and let it soothe and restore my soul… and see what words might come to me.

This river is our resource. Let’s use it. Let’s Peace.

Reflecting for Peace

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We look back and see where we were. We consider who we are now. We look forward and determine who we will be.

There are so many words. And we’re all using them. But the inhale, exhale, plan, do, are where we need to be, that’s about all I’ve got.

And look back a bit, drag forward all the good things you believe in and commit. Look at what worked. And what didn’t. And then do what needs to be done. That’s going to have to be what we’re about, isn’t it?

Last night the people in my faith community remembered that we have a forebear who stood in times like these. It helps. We’re the ones who have to bring the Peace.

 

Outrospective for Peace

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Ann and I are good acquaintances… we’ve never spent a lot of time together, yet, when we have it’s generally been at an event where the community is swirling around… concerts to memorials, we know many of the same people.

We laugh however, because people think we’re the same person. No, I’m the thin church-voiced back up singer and the preacher-lady. She’s the good-hearted, well-thought blues queen.

What we both are, aside from our soft silhouettes is outrospective. We’re public women, pushing our own kinds of Peace. I don’t know about Ann, but I do my thinking in words, outside my head. I need to drip the words into silence or onto paper to begin to understand what I think.

Right now, I’m exhaling a lot, knowing I need to move forward gently…

Now is the time for Peace, Love, and Understanding. I exhale, forgiving myself and each other, and begin again in Love.