Circles

Yesterday, my son graduated from Greek after-school. He is in kindergarten. Always in our years at the Greek school, there are elaborate ceremonies and gatherings to celebrate endings and beginnings. Each grade performed a poem, a song, or a dance. Usually the dancers are holding hands, dancing in a circle. One particular dance struck me that graduation day. In this dance, the circle was always left open. Between each series of steps, a dancer from the left side of the circle broke off and joined the dancer to his or her right. The dancers on either side of the opening would place their arm behind their backs, until that hand would join another dancer's again. This continued throughout the dance.

To leave a circle open, to even purposely and continually break it, leaves a seam of opening, that the universe, that the world, that consciousness itself is always leaving openings for us to re-enter. However broken our hearts, there is more invitation to enter in again. Keep opening the circles of your heart, widen them, let others join as trust reveals.