Today I danced a dance with Gaia
Skin upon dusty earth
On the edge of the field of my own belonging.
Knowing that without the shadow of a shadow
Of a doubt
There’s always ground to hold me.

Feeling the expanse of this state of grace I seem to find myself in. –
Contacting self with each step, into
Beauty and patience unfolding before me in a spiral dance of allowing -
while fear and excitement play the same moves like backstreet bookees in a dark alley,
dissolving murky doubts and infusing my open heart with bravery.

Clear eyed and free I laughed a saucy little laugh -
Joy dripping from soul like honey
Wild fire igniting all that no longer serves,
creating fertile soil for these seeds to take root.

Slow burn deep into the center of her earth.
Sustaining.
Smoldering
Growing

Standing tall on this rock I call my own
Lifetime
Of feeling and falling and feeling and falling and tired of falling so I
Choose a new route
This time.

Yes, so today I danced a dance with Gaia.
We invited Reason.
Then politely asked her to leave
The door open
For Wonder and
Curiosity who showed up in the most fantastic of costumes
Of many colors and shapes and textures and “how’d she do that’s?” and “I wonder whats?’

Later, Destiny and I took a walk.
I, the whole time trying to get her to spill the beans.
She wasn’t having it – all the while repeating her singular mantra like a lyrical metronome:
“You know”
“You know”

Misery showed up just for a moment, only to remind us about our meeting with Ecstacy and Joy at high noon.

And at the end of the day, when the last dance was danced and all the guests made their way to their rightful places… I got to sleep with Gratitude.
We:
Wide eyed and whispering our appreciation,
like prayer beads lighting the shadows.