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Time Out—Vacation

06/19/2022 by Aruni

Time Out—Vacation

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To know something so deeply 
While not knowing it at all—

This is my relationship to
The New Jersey Shore.

Childhood memories
My tanned little-kid legs
Brushed by sea grass
On the sand dunes, 
Kite in hand,
Running,
Free.

Playing 
With the
Waves,
Springing upward,
Ducking into,
One
With.

Tumbling
Forward,
Blessing me
With 
My
Little-girl-
Strength.

So many more
Memories.

College
Here,
Too, 
But now
A blur 
Of 
Images.
Mom
Living 
Here,

Her
Alone,
Those
Last years, 

Her
Silence,

Her
Strength,

Her 
Emptiness
Filled
By pictures
Of sunrises…
Of sunsets.

Vacation now,
One thousand 
Years later.

Resting,
Walking,
So familiar,
And
In the 
Same
Breath,
So new.
~~~
I hope you find 
Some rest this week,
Dear friends.

I am grateful to recalibrate
Down into 
The roll
Of
The
Waves.

~~~
Two inspirational supports this week
For us:

First, Roshi Joan Halifax, with a powerful and important read:
Practice for a World at Risk

Read Here

~~~
When was the first time you heard Peace Train?  Do you remember?

Do you remember memories of this song?  
Where were you?
What was happening?

Here is a contemporary, multi-national version, featuring Yusuf/Cat Stevens with Playing for Change/Song around the World-Day

 


~~~
Dear Friends,

To summer.
To solstice.

To waves
And
Rest
And
The 
Possibility
Of
Renewal.

All blessings,
Aruni

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