HoopPath Guest Blogger: Dave
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[Editor’s Note: We met Dave, one of the warmest hearts in the Midwest and a helluva saxophone player, when he took a chance and came down sight unseen to our 2008 Retreat last June. Since then we’ve had the good fortune to connect with him on our last trip to Chicago, and we look forward to having him down here again for the next retreat if he can swing it. He sent us the following letter after participating in our Chicago workshop. Thank you so much for your genuineness and generosity, Dave! You are one of a kind!]
What a blessing to go to a circus arts loft/dojo, 1/4 mile north of the United Center (the house that #23, MJ, built), to dive into
Beauty (this time’s Maidan theme/metaphor/visualizing focus). Over three days and sixty times at least, I hit stamina’s wall; the space lovingly held by Baxter for me to pause, reboot, breathe, say “yah Allah, yah Matin, yah Quddus” (Divine and Sufi qualities of Persistance and Holiness). Then I was present to jump back into Ritmo and Flow through connection with the group Energy and the Music Baxter chose. In these moments I found myself saying aloud,”I can do this!!”. Faith and Trust,
Spiritual Strength, Divine Grace were in realtime Manifestation. I find that Y’ALL, Baxter and Ann, are in true Service, carrying the Divine Light to All through this practice of Hooping and Community.
Please understand what a boost/reboot/kickstart/support the HoopPath Community—-YOU—-have been to my Purpose in this Life, this Time. Thank you also for your lifting up of my Spirit in this weekend of Discovery and Joy: Ann (OMG, YALL), Heather, Mercedes, Elizabeth (heal fast and well, hoop sis), Ginger, Noah, Kelli, Claire, Marci, Mary, Lynn, Rebecca, Lizzy, Danielle, Angie, Corinne, and all our other sisters from Il, WI, KY, IN and GA!!!!
Dave