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With Deep Gratitude to A Beloved Teacher, Darlene Smith—

Let me grieve,
Unconsolably.
Now is the time.
Hold off pacifying my aching heart.
Standby,
Let me cry.
Tears water Darlene’s garden in my heart.

Sweet Sorrow
I am not a biological child.
Yet a daughter richly blessed
That teachers have many children.

This train too will pass?
Don’t get on?
Let it pass?
Not without a moan and a hiss.
Why do those with so much to give the world not linger on?

Just now,
I’m thrown off my feet,
Fallen away from Earth and sky,
To Learn suddenly that
She has vanished with the Night
Like Aspen leaves fluttering in the breeze she’ s an apparition of shimmering light.

O let me rent my clothes,
And shudder,
Being thoroughly discharged, I will remember,
in time
Her mother hand over mine, guiding the journey through layers of skin, adipose, fluid, muscle, bone,
Pausing,
to show me how to invite the heart of one lying on my table to meet itself

Her mother hand yet cultivates my discerning
That I might perceive the human complex—
Aura and Form,
Texture and Relationship,
Movement and Stillness

How easily my uncertainty dissolves in Her firm, languid Attentiveness.
I expand
In Her Humble Expansiveness,
Sense the power of my own intuition,
discover I’m healer—Privileged Listener.

Only momentarily upturned,
I will soon cease swimming in this soup of denial, anger, guilt, grief
She’s taught me
Rebound,
That anchoring in the dimensions—right time, place, direction
is relative
To being rooted in the Infinite…
Love?

Colonies of Aspens share one giant root
Colonies of Aspens, One Root, One Organism

Does humanity root in One Universal Heart?
If Darlene believed it,
She knew that love wasn’t always felt
Therefore,
Tolerate
Being comfortable with the uncomfortable
She was the model of Tolerance.

Thank you Darlene! Your shimmering light will forever dance in my heart.

I invite you to join me in Bar Harbor, Maine, on the weekend of October 26-27th, for two wonderful workshops that I'll be leading with owner and director of the Whole health Center: Santosha--the grace of contentment, and Beyond the Mat Yoga. View details in the Whole Health Center's early winter schedule:

http://thewholehealthcenter.org

The Whole Health Center Please excuse our appearance as we modernize our site! Many thanks! If you wish to see our Winter and Spring 2013 schedule, it’s right here.

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Please note that there will be no Beyond the Mat Yoga class in Prospect Park this Sunday 30th September 2012. We look forward to seeing you again on Sunday October 7th at 8:00am, and will continue every Sunday as usual. Final free class of the season in the park ends Sunday October 27th. Click on the yellow events' photo for directions and my contact info. to let me know that you're coming.

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