On being Gypsy

Being "Gypsy" is a quality of heart and mind and body...and Soul.
You need not be born a gypsy to possess these qualities.

Being Gypsy is also a paradigm...a useful and rich perspective that
can help you know yourself...what you are and what you are not.

It can call up the best in you.

It is perfectly alright to try it on for size and see what gifts it brings.
Most likely, you are an amalgam of many things.
No need to live in only one room of the house that is You!

Giving yourself permission to be can be one of the most challenging
of life's sacred tasks.

So...as a facet of one's self, there is much to explore! It has great depth.
It is both playful and serious, ancient and modern, encompassing all
cultures and terrains.

It is the unsettled element in you that refuses to die,
though you may have long tried to subdue it.

It does not 'fit'...it doesn't have to.

It will rise when it is most needed to bestow life on those
whose lives are being crushed in the machinery of modern life.

The week-end is coming... Why not break with the things that society
urges
on you for a few hours, an evening...though the entire day or weekend
would be best.

Can you free yourself to have no other plan then to enjoy today
and to feel yourself free and unencumbered.
No agenda, no phone, no attachments. Complete and precious freedom.
All you have to do is sink down to the earth, breathe deeply, and be...

It is enough... You are enough... This was always your birthright...

Release everything that is not of you...the heavy mantle of seriousness,
sorrow, consciousness of time.

Drift a little distance away... No one will notice... Create space...

When the weekend is over and it's time to drift back, cast a longer line
back to shore, stay clear of the rocks...

Put back on only what is necessary.

Be sure to add something colorful to remind you of your gypsy soul...

Don't forget to dance...