magic. and birth.
I stumble into life everyday.
I wake up with leftover ash covering my skin like a gown from the ceremonial fire that I was at somewhere before I opened my eyes and I brush it off with disregard. My thighs ache from the ritualist dance that must have taken over my limbs and there are burn marks on my ass from getting too close to the flames. The back of my head has seven dreadlocks by getting dragged around by my ankles.
I stumble and then surrender to the fall and just as I am about to get slammed the wind catches me and I ride the air waves, believing they will carry me until my own wings grow. This morning I am pissed my dreams force me to into the real world and I have somewhere to be at a certain time and only one sock left in the drawer There is no moment worth casting aside as just another annoyance, but I do over and over again. There is no process that can be avoided, no journey that is not worth it’s weight in gold. Yet I curse this one. There is nothing more important than a first breath [each breath is always a first breath], yet I hold mine religiously. There is nothing more grand than our last breath [each one can always be the last] and I am still scared shitless to die. I stand in my closet ignoring screams from bathroom (someone needs toilet paper) and the kitchen (someone wants vitamins) I stand there wondering what would look good atop a pair of pinstrip pants, what would look good without a bra because my only one is missing. There was nothing that looked good. Topless, rushing around to investigate what might live in the the dirty piles on the floor saying motherfucking laundry under my breath about 25 times, sure that the construction workers from across the street could see me. In front of the huge class window, I was a little grossed out and a little turned on. And there it was. Magic. Nothing is no more or no less than it. I can’t cast away even the most simpliest of days as ordinary. My story is magic. So is yours. Tell it. Don’t just write it, though. Live it.
***
I had to write something about eating placentas and a part of it came out like this. It’s been said over and over but it’s always worth repeating, or at least I think so.
"Each of us has our own personal mystery of how we meet birth; in a dark alley or a green meadow or an ocean of blue. A soft blanket by a fire, a warm tub of water, an operating table or a mix of them all. Whether we like it or not, it owns us, uses us, gifts us, shakes us up, swallows us, spits us out and cradles us. It forces us, hands tied behind our backs and our eyelids pulled open there to the dustiest corners of ourselves; the places we obsess and all that we ignore. Birth is that present moment, a reminder of who we have been and who we surrender to become. It offers a challenge to our humanness, giving the choice; faith or fear? Or both. It allows us to build walls to slam ourselves against and tools to smash them down. It hands us a key to open our cage and release into the world, crossing our fingers that the spirit emerges full of grace and healing, that it ascends with the wings of a free bird."
Feeling like a freebird. But only because those ashes were so real.
Fierce.
Truth.
Reality.
Magic.
We’ve all been feeling it lately. I’ve had births in which I’ve chosen each: fear and faith. Sometimes I choose both in a singular moment. Sometimes I told them to fuck off.
How lovely indeed to read your FreedOM.
Love the kicks and the stripes and I think I’m a little turned on too…
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Every moment is magic, and none more magic than when our all is called upon - those moments reflect to us all of who we really are. To cultivate the self that will birth and die with awareness - regardless of circumstances that surround it - that is our life quest.
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Isn’t that it, tho? Too many of us want to write while not living in the minute. Writing is an escape but some things just get us and force us to wake up. Thanks for the reminder to be awake. Naked-ly awake.
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this is the line that gets me:
“what would look good without a bra because my only one is missing”
chaos of closet and mind… how will I choose to respond?
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