Move and Be Moved

Have you had the experience of being away from the dance long enough to feel like you had forgotten how? I just returned from such an absence and it was a bittersweet homecoming. A little bitter because my body hurts, I'm out of shape and it feels like it's going to be a long road back to that particular feeling of home- being at home in a fluid body free of pain. But so sweet to feel so well held and well loved in the circle, so included and valued and danced. And oh! I remembered how! Just to move one moment at a time, just to connect with my body where it is, to connect this moment to the next, in motion, in community, in love.
Bittersweet
hearts parting
after visits in
my heart's other home
hearts rejoining and rejoicing
in this heart home we're building
feeling home
inside and out
finding home
in me
in you
in the dance