May we all find joy and pathways to joy through curiosity even as the world seems to be… doing not great things around us. We have to stay energized for the work that needs to be done. We can’t succumb to despair. The people causing the world to be so ugly certainly never give up and so mustn’t we. But to make a world different from the one they want, we also have to work for it differently and that includes staying in and expressing and experiencing joy wherever and whenever we can.
If you have things you would add to this list for yourself, I would love to hear from you!
My most recent big joy was getting to Erie and then getting to the lake. Getting my toes in big water is one of my happy happiest places. Walking on those tiny pebbles is one of my favorite things. Trying to capture the water in photos is something that will forever be a mild (maybe not mild…) obsession.
I need to make it more of a regular practice to get to bigger water, whether Lake Erie or another big body of water.
When I first bought this new bio of Sylvia Plath I wasn’t ready to read it, but now I am and it’s awakening my love of language again. I’m also rereading The Bell Jar.
Gardening is taking off here at our new, very old house. (Built in 1882.) I’m super in love with this new rose we just planted though I’ll have to wait until next year to really appreciate it.
Even if you’re not a huge basketball fan (I’m pretty rabid…), this movie was freaking amazing. And it’s full of hope and good things. It makes you believe in dreams again.
This man is, right now, the joy of music in one body. His new album is downright effervescent. And this video is, well… watch it.
I haven’t written about it much, but we went to see Tears for Fears, and I can’t really do justice with words. First, it was an outdoor venue in Cincinnati and the weather was perfect. But second, MY GOD THE VOICE OF ROLAND. You really have no idea until you hear him live. He can’t be captured in a studio. Not even freaking close. And the woman who backed them up?!?! Again, MY GOD. Here’s my favorite song after their current album (which is fanfreakingtastic and worth a listen).
A huge joy right now for me is that I’m really getting back to some intense and regular movement practices. For a while now, I’ve just been hanging on… and so mostly I’ve been moving and dancing only when I was teaching. (Besides some walks and little things here and there.)
But suddenly something has switched in my brain and I’m back to daily explorations of my own practices, of course, but also pilates and a variety of other things. I just ordered new books about Butoh and general movement for the first time in too long to calculate.
My movement obsession brain has turned back on after years of being off or just slightly buzzing in the background and I am so very happy and relieved.
Again, I’d love to hear from YOU!
