Pat - how wonderful, some things are just meant to be. I love your full-on
ness!!
Audrey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia Rauch" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: A poem by Rumi that speaks to today
> To all in the group
> Thanks for the poem because dancing we are in my family. My niece who had
a
> partial hysterectomy when she was twelve they left her uterus in tact, a
> fallopian tube and 1/4 of an ovary. SHE IS 9 WEEKS PREGNANT. Dance we are
> all jumping for joy.
> Pat
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Danielle Fraenkel <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:37 PM
> Subject: A poem by Rumi that speaks to today
>
>
> > Thanks Mary, Nick, Paul, Pat, and all the others who have written to me.
A
> dance/movement therapist colleague sent this poem to me. I smiled becasue
it
> reminded me of my wish to get all our political leaders to LivingDance.
> Rumi's poem speaks to that dream, or should I say fantasy? Thought you
might
> enjoy it. Please let me know.
> > Danielle
> >
> > Dance, when you're broken open.
> > Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
> > Dance in the middle of fighting.
> > Dance in your blood.
> > Dance, when you're perfectly free.
> > Struck, the dancers hear the tambourine inside them,
> > as a wave turns the foam on its very top, begin.
> > Maybe you don't hear that tambourine,
> > all the tree leaves clapping time.
> > Close the ears on your head that listen mostly to lies
> > and cynical jokes.
> > There are other things to hear and see:
> > dance, music and a brilliant city inside the soul.
> > -Rumi
> >
> > Mary R Keogh wrote:
> >
> > > My heart goes out to you, Danielle, in all that you and your mother
are
> experiencing right now. I hope your mother finds the help you are looking
> for. What words are there for all the very deepest experiences of life?
> The powerful acts of silence that went across Europe on Friday are
testament
> to that. We can only try to be there for each other in whatever way is
> needed. Words, especially the written word, are often wholly inadequate.
> > > How can we express such huge feelings with the little ordinary words
of
> everyday. As with you, the hawkish talk appalls me and I hope against
hope
> that it will not come to an even greater horror.
> > >
> > > Thinking of you and wishing you peace and strength.
> > >
> > > Mary
> > >
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