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that moment when,

your first love gets engaged

and there are photos

and they’re perfect 

and you want to say congratulations

but you can’t

because it’s not honest.

“Just quiet the mind…”

breathe in 

breathe out

repeat

“Apply some fire darling.”

I am learning to edit.

In my choreography, in my writing, and in my life.

I can let go.

I’m the

Do/Make

to your

Say/Think

Without faltering

fully choose to do what you must do

- from Verse 30, Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition

“A lesson is repeated until it is learned”

•  #4, The Rules for Being Human