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Last Year Is Dead


Wednesday, May 3, 2023,

If you'd like to see a charming, heart-warming, and extremely well done film, go and see "Marcele the Shell".

Introduced to me by a friend who enjoys film as much as I do, Marcele the Shell is a G rated style of film, that still manages to deal with very adult/non-sugary topics (like death and re-birth).

Without going into detail, one of the most emotional parts of the film is narrated by one fo the main characters slowly reciting a short poem called, "The Trees" by Philip Larkin.

Watch the film for the full effect but, now that Spring is here, I've found a line from the poem popping into my head frequently:

"...Last year is dead, they seem to say, begin afresh, afresh, afresh..."

The simplicity of the message is death/re-birth of nature in Springtime.  That message of death/re-birth is powerful, however, as a person goes through many cycles of death/re-birth (even throughout the short course of one day).

In that vein of death and rebirth I'll say this (as Philip Larkin said it); 'yesterday' is dead.....begin afresh.

Time to begin today's practice...

Part II:

It's 7:20am as I type this, and I've just come out of Savasana.

For the first time in probably over a year, I went through a full backbend sequence at the end of my practice, and executed three, complete upward bow poses (Urdhva Dhanurasana)......it opens up ones body, mind, and soul (hippie dippie as that sounds).  

Time to bring this version of myself out into the world.....afresh, afresh, afresh.

Namaste


 

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