RE: Finding Each Other Again
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For sure. Remaining open is the key to keeping that connection with our inner child. The minute we become bitter and closed off that inner child walks away from us. Hive is very much that for me. It's a place of comfort where I, to a greater or lessor degree depending on engagement, feel heard—kind of the antithesis of other SM platforms.
I'm glad you still engage and connect face-to-face. It's so very important to make eye contact, smile, and speak, even if it's just a hello. There are a lot of lonely people out there. That short point of contact might make all the difference to them. Isn't it amazing when you can shift a person's energy for the better? Sometimes a genuine compliment will do that too, just totally shift their energy.
The book is just a really good fit for me, I connect with it because it's so poetic I think. I LOVE Rumi.
Oh yes, I think when we know how much it means to us when people are open and kind, it feels good to return it to the world. It can be hard to get started but I like to compliment like you say - a great conversation starter. Yesterday it was a young girl at the supermarket with bright blue hair and a lopsided undercut. She was quite surprised to have me gush about how gorgeous it looked, particularly as to her I was probably some old lady. And you think, if I offer openness to her,maybe it keeps her a little open too I mean I don't think that AS I do it, it's only part of a deeper reflection with you haha.
I love Rumi too. My Dad used to have these cassettes he was given of someone reading Rumi to raga music. Wish he had kept them. I had a friend read a Rumi poem at our wedding.
Each Note
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us
a passion, a longing-pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath note originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don’t try to end it.
Be your note.
I’ll show you how it’s enough.
Go up on the roof at night
in this city of the soul.
Let everyone climb on their roofs
and sing their notes!
Sing loud!
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We also had a Rumi poem at Dads funeral. So yeah. We kinda like him too.
That's wonderful that you compliment strangers when the inspiration hits. It takes courage to do that and, it makes you feel good as well—it's win, win. What a beautiful poem! I can see why you wanted to make it a part of your wedding memory. I like to see poetry still valued in that way in a world where it's passed by by so many.
Gah people can't even read these days!