by Samantha on October 29, 2008
My favorite person asked me this morning, “If we could turn red before we die, do you think we’d mind dying?” “Not so much. Red-imbued, I’d prepare with greater anticipation, more chutzpah, less cringing. It’s a glorious color for death.” We stood in the first rain-light of early morning, surrounded by denuded trees, skeletal in [...]
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death,
digestion,
Dylan's rage,
fall dying,
Pasasana Pose,
Pluto depths,
red-death,
sack cloth,
Scorpio,
sizzle fall,
stripping down,
twists,
Vata Dosha
by Samantha on October 24, 2008
Whatever you feel is missing in your life can become your motivation now. Stand still and feel the cells of your body as a multitude of tiny vessels listening, waiting to be filled. How do you wish to fill them? Is it a choice, or does happenstance win out? Our consciousness is a vast filtering [...]
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Baddha Natarajasana,
betwen breaths,
Dancer,
empty,
fill in luminosity,
GIGO,
Starting over
by Samantha on October 17, 2008
As some of you know, I am creating a performance piece for Black Womanhood at the Davis Museum. Part of this exploration has been to re-weave my life back into that of my ancestors, known and unknown, black, white, and brown. My thoughts have traveled and woven around ancestors, both of blood and of choice, [...]
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energy patterns,
essential truths,
Mark Caffal
by Samantha on October 13, 2008
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the [...]
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Libra polarities,
mobile,
October dance,
Practicing,
restless,
slow,
steady,
Still Point,
Sun Salutations,
TS Eliot,
Vata Yoga