Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

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B-Seer

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C-Belover

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Part 2 - Resources

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A ritual of skin

• A starting practice, then, is to look at your skin until you begin to see your beloved. Sit, stand, whatever. Be before each other and observe. Gaze and travel into the endless fractal crevasses of your beloved as you explore your own.

  Skin is the map of ages. Carrying family history. Family stories. Personal tragedies and triumphs. Sadness and comic relief.

• Behold your beloved. At morning, stand so that your beloved is the moon receding and the sun rising. At night, the sun descending and the moon rising. Hail your beloved. Celebrate his/her individuality and distance. Shout, “Hello!” across the infinite space which is not yours and not your beloved’s but the playground for your mutual celebration and creating. Move towards each other peering, looking as the shadows of morn unveil your beloved. As the brazen exposure of light betrays the uniqueness of each other.

  Shout, speak, point, delight in the differences. “Great Red-head! I yearn to draw my fingers through your hair.” And with a gleeful eye, scan every hair. Check from ankle to top of the head. Peer into private areas. Smile. Share laughter. Play with this awakening. Play with the unraveling of the dreamer into the body of your Beloved.

• As you come closer, move to the dance of touch. Ever so slightly greet each other with whisper and puffy breath. Meet each other with your breathing as you have with your sighting. Touch with the smile, the look, the leer, the wicked flick of finger, and, as practiced and designed, meet in your safe zone, that chosen space of rug, blanket, a boundary of candles, whatever, and come, dock unto each other with fingertips, gently, drawing, and moving about so as to receive the form of your beloved, of her cheek, his thigh, her nose, his ears, her belly, his chest.

Continue—skin