Wanna Dance?
After our enchanting experience listening to Om Namo Kali on repeat every day for months, Sam has requested that I ALWAYS have a song that I’m obsessed with.
And, since I’m not the type to disappoint her husband (unless it’s about cooking, cleaning, washing my dirty hippie feet, or basically any request that doesn’t align impeccably with what I already want to do), I’m honoring his ask.
My new song? Invocation by Poranguí and Zang.
Every morning, I start my day by flailing around our apartment while Poranguí and Zang croon these words:
The sun rises from you once again
And so we come again to pray
In gratitude
We sing from the edges of this world
In gratitude
With our drums and tongues
We pray
Dancing with you, Spirit
On the edge of the abyss
We hear our ancestors whisper
And we remember
Their story
Our story
This story
Please read the lyrics closely. They’re describing a gathering of people. A community steeped in gratitude. A group that wakes up every morning, gathers their drums, then goes out to THANK the sun for rising. “The sun rises once again and so we come again to pray.”
“In gratitude, we sing from the edges of this world.”
“In gratitude, with our drums and tongues, we pray.”
Then they dance. With each other and with Spirit.
Just to say, “thanks for another day.”
Gathering, drumming, singing and dancing. Celebrating. Saying thanks. Pouring from cups overflowing with gratitude, joy and delight.
Filling those cups with MORE gratitude, joy and delight.
Together. In ceremony. In bliss and ecstasy and awe. In gratitude. In gratitude. In gratitude. And in love.
I’m posting about it on the Internet so everyone knows that I’m looking for friends like this.
If you want to wake up and thank the sun with our drums and our tongues, if you want to dance with Spirit on the edge of the abyss – PLEASE tell me, because I’m looking for you.
Just know that you may have to send me the, “Hey, I’m available” message via smoke signals. I’m far too busy being enchanted by this beautiful way of living to ever check my phone.
And now, a moment of silence for Sam. This really is the wife he married.
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