Haines, Alaska – 2010

Review of Feet Don’t Fail Me Now (FDFMN)

I am not what you would call a “dance” type of person, or someone who would go out of my way to see tap dancing. I’m more of a “what color of flannel should I wear today” type of person.

Through a friend, I heard about this crazy, hyper person named Ricci Milan and the Feet Don’t Fail Me Now show that Rhythmic Circus puts on.  We had the privilege to see them in Burnsville in November of last year.

I now have not only a t-shirt, a CD, but a friendship with these cats.

They put on an amazing high-energy show of dancing, humor, music, all wrapped within a positive message.  It seems to be a rare occurrence where family can enjoy an evening together, with children of all ages laughing and stomping their feet along side their parents.  Rhythmic Circus provides that atmosphere and entertainment.

They are gathering their friends and forces in an effort to get on the Ellen Degeneres show, and after that, off-broadway. Please check out their website and Facebook pages.

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BEYOND WORDS

What to say to the image
let alone the story and the history.

Here in the new year we reflect back
upon our deeds and misdeeds

upon that which defines and builds
the core we take with us.

On that day, truth and bravery
hung heavy in the winter air.

Time flows into time and back into itself. Time is seemingly consistent and flowing everywhere, as we are immersed in its ever present impact on reality. Even when time is bent , we are merely bending ourselves around it.

Time is a benchmark of distance between events of every scale, and across all realities. Time has been assigned subjective numbers, months, and years to provide a more palatable meaning that assists in getting through each day.

Time is what make of it and the experiences wrapped within time. Time is merely a river flowing and merging with other time. As now is the culmination of past, present, and future, now is the center of all time.

Why does a date, a mere number, mean anything at all? The spirit, and the consciousness, have no age or physical limitations, they only have levels and states of awareness. These events only serve to guide our being, to fill the path we make with challenges, allowing us to reach further up, and out, to reach where we came from.

Awareness enhances the field of vision, showing the intersection the physical and nonphysical have with you, and conversely how you are perceived in that reality. Awareness can then take you beyond here, beyond this wasteland we are rebuilding. Awareness will take you to the border kingdom as you search for the source, and n=answers to many questions plaguing the awakened mind.

There is no birth, only no-birth. There is no death, only no-death.

The consciousness swirls around the being as he walks through the field he has created, toward the border separating one kingdom from another. A choice now to be made, based on the experiences he has gathered and keeps in a black velvet bag. These fragments are what he has chosen to let go of physically, and allow their essence to blend and consume one another, creating and defining his awareness.

The sun will rise tomorrow, and it will set in the evening.

I see the path I have taken to get here and I vow to clean and clear the path I will take next, to avoid the carnage I have created, and the negative energy left in my wake. To improve who we are, and how we project ourselves into this reality, a reality involving others, is the most simple and powerful thing we can do.