take heart

"We take heart in ourselves for being a conglomerate of things that don’t necessarily work out. We are temporal and fragile, but we get a strength from being mended and repaired. That in-between of existence..." 

-- Kiki Smith

Pina Bausch, Masurca Fogo

a life time

Over 14, in the middle and over 65 all dancing Pina's Kontacthof
Watch, move with and play with people of all ages. You'll learn alot!
 

“ Better a broken arm than a broken spirit." 

- Lady Allen of Hurtwood, 1968

Kintsugi

Kintsukuroi.
(n.) (v.phr.) "to repair with gold"

I like Kintsugi's simple lesson, that it's possible to start over.

(Found here)

“ Better a broken arm than a broken spirit." 

- Lady Allen of Hurtwood, 1968

(images of 1950's Cuban playground found here)

Never Not Broken

This article by Julie JC Peters for Elephant Journal 

"Akhilandeshvari:

“Ishvari” in Sanskrit means “goddess” or “female power,” and the “Akhilanda” means essentially “never not broken.” In other words, The Always Broken Goddess. Sanskrit is a tricky and amazing language, and I love that the double negative here means that she is broken right down to her name.

But this isn’t the kind of broken that indicates weakness and terror.
It’s the kind of broken that tears apart all the stuff that gets us stuck in toxic routines, repeating the same relationships and habits over and over, rather than diving into the scary process of trying something new and unfathomable.

This figure has snuck up inside me and settled into my bones. She keeps coming out of my mouth every time I teach, and she’s given me so much strength and possibility during a time of change and uncertainty in my own life. I wanted to unpack a little bit about who she is for those that might be, like me, struggling a little bit in that pile on the floor and wondering how the hell to get up again.

The answer, it turns out, is this: in pieces, warrior-style, on the back of a crocodile. Yee ha...."

And in full...

You're NOT broken

You're not a problem to be solved.
You do not need to be fixed.

Learn from your history, but don't live in it. Be here NOW and take responsibility for what you can change and leave the rest.