Cross-Training Body Mind Emotions Spirit | Rachael R. Resch

Just as it says in the song from “Hair,” at dawn on February 14, the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars — all in the sign of Aquarius.  In honor of that planetary configuration and in honor of the play “Hair,” we danced to the entire original soundtrack of the […]

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A Love Letter Within a circle of one meter You sit, pray and sing. Within a shelter ten meters large You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby. Within a field a hundred meters large Raise rice and goats. Within a valley a thousand meters large Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas. Within a forest […]

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Lost Stand still.  The trees ahead and the bushes behind you Are not lost.  Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes.  Listen.  It answers, I have made this place around you.  If you leave it, […]

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            Her Longing Before this longing, I lived serene as a fish, At one with the plants in the pond,  The mare’s tail, the floating frogbit, Among my eight-legged friends, Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip, Like a leech, looping myself along, A bug-eyed edible one, A mouth like […]

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            I Live My life I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of the world. Perhaps I can never achieve the last, but that will be my attempt. I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,  and I have been circling for a […]

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A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal […]

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Yesterday was my friend Judyth Hill’s birthday.  Here is the poem she sent out to celebrate.  I read it at the end of class today.                                                        *     […]

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