Healing Ripples

Private to Privy

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Healing Ripples

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I haven’t shared this blog officially yet.

It feels like these entries are temporary privacies,

fueled by their future of finding Home between your ears.

They know someday they will reach you.

I know someday, I will reach you.

Until then, my heart is full and I pour it’s over flow here,

into a poetic pool collecting momentum.

Private to privy, I invite you into my heart and into my thoughts.

Get naked with my naked words, I don’t even have to know.

That’s the wonder of this modern medium…

I can share, you can receive, and I may never know the intimacies you’ve shown in the privacy of your home.

But for you, I undress in public.

Because somebody’s gotta do it.

Somebody needs to invite us out of our secrets and into our truth.

Out of our shame and into our nakedness.

 

-Courtney Rose Battistelli

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  1. Saransh Avatar
    Saransh

    A ripple touched me.. Took my awareness to the space between me and my emulation on a mirror.
    I said to my emulation on the mirror. I’m able to see you because of this space in between.
    I went out to soak up the sun.. I said to the sun, I feel your warmth because of the space between us.

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Ama Ndlovu explores the connections of culture, ecology, and imagination.

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