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Your Body ………
“Your body is an opportunity. Exploration. A soft canvas of reclamation. A remarkable container for the universe to arrive. Inherently worthy. Always enough. Wade deeper into the thoroughness of your love. Rewrite stories never meant to define you. Make space for joy where there is pain. Plant flowers in the minefields of your shame. Unfold into paths both known and unknown. Let your body be a home.”
–Victoria Emanuela
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Thanks Tina. This quote reminds me of one of my favourite lines of poetry from the Mary Oliver poem “Wild Geese”. The line is: “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”. The whole poem goes (for others than Tina, whom I know also loves this poem):
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
Are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
