Leveling the Playing Field
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM 
Last week at the "Honoring the Ancestors" retreat, I was greeted by these images during an experience of walking the labyrinth. My oh my!
Giggling little girls – full of joy and eager to greet me. “Come on. Come on,” they say. “Come play with us.” The years fade away – the hurts – the sorrows – the weight of life. We are girls – skipping – laughing – tumbling. Full of joy. Generations cascading together. Somersaulting like acrobats. Walking a tight wire without fear. Taking each others’ hands and holding – caressing. We raise each other upright with our laughter – lightness and light. A puddle of puppies, but we are giggling girls – all of us. Grandmas. Aunties. Mothers. Nieces. Daughters. Tumbling together on beds of feathers – light as air. Pure goodness – All else dissolves into fits of laughter.
“Come play with us.” We are little girls even in our death. Those who have gone before and those who come after share in the joy. Let it out of the box for all to see. Anne. Daisy. Myrtice. Audrey. Addie. Morgan. Janey. Stephanie. Kari. Ainsley. Dianna June and Kayce Dee. Come play with me. Auntie. Glenda Jo. Vicki. Carolyn. Barbara. Marilyn. Little girls, all. Their beauty glows.
Little girls. Aunts. Cousins. Daughters. Mothers. Grandmas. Sisters. Blonde. Raven-haired. Straight and curly. Giggling girls. Our laughter and compassion will save the world. Little girls, come dance with me. Little girls of wonder for all the world to see. Communion white and taffeta red – pink – yellow – golden girls. All tumbling into giggle pie.
Little girls skip and scuff their shoes. Giggling precious girls. Generations of them. Embracing me. Touching me. Our blood flows through from Eve. Transformed girls. How can anyone be angry with them? Look through the wrinkles of gray and death – into eyes of laughing girls. Full of hope and compassion and JOY! Amen. Blessed be.
"laughter" © lucy 11.11.09
Family, Laughter, Women, soul collage
Reader Comments (4)
I love this beautiful post!!
There have been some interesting discussions lately on other blogs about how to deal with conflict, the awful situations in our world - and you've just given the answer.
"Our laughter and compassion will save the world."
I will not soon forget this.
Lucy's life experiences are my joy, like fiction or seeing a movie and you laugh and cry. So all those wonderful children are my friends' children and my children too! Thank you for your precious diamonds, today your giggling diamonds, Lucy! ((-:
SS - thinking about where the other "light/audience" might be for this piece... xoxo
pollinatrix - the trick is learning to laugh again and beginning with compassion for ourselves (imo).
kigen - i love that "giggling diamonds"!!! thank you.