dancing like the eagles

[Glory Ressler]

  Julie,
Beautifully lived and said!
Best,
glory

Julie Smith wrote:

>Greetings, friends ~
>
>I was privileged to spend the last four days rafting on the Gulkana
>River, one of Alaska's most beautiful rivers.  As we were nearing the
>completion of our journey yesterday I looked into the sky and found two
>eagles soaring in a gigantic circle of flight, each always opposite the
>other, dancing around and around and around, each mastering with the
>other the art of both moving and staying in the same position (exactly
>opposite the other).....
>
>Imagine that...... the paradox of movement and stillness solved by two
>soaring eagles....  and more beautiful (dynamic, flowing, creative,
>peaceful), than words can tell.....
>
>I wonder how much we are like the eagles, soaring along, searching for
>that mystical flowing dance of movement and stillness, testing our wings
>through the flow of our conversation, our work, our contemplations and
>our compassion. Our dance is more complicated and is taking a
>bit longer
>to work out, perhaps, but what a beautiful creative loving flowing dance
>it is becoming....
>
>In response to the 63 OSLIST e-mails I just had the pleasure of reading:
>
>When I think about what I need to do in the world, I tend to look
>inward.  I don't tend to think as much about what I can do to help
>others/organizations change, but rather what I can do in each moment to
>express good in the world.  When I can do that unconditionally (without
>regard to what comes back to me), the goodness seems to grow of its own
>accord..... and that is where I find myself feeling the surge of energy,
>power, joy, and flow.... dancing like the eagles..... movement and
>stillness.... in letting go I arrive....
>
>Julie
>

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