Dance, regardless . . .

Friday, February 14, 2025, It's Freya's day … The Snow Moon is full on this Valentine's Day.

It's the birth date of dancer, actor, and choreographer Gregory Hines in 1946 New York City.

And, comedian Jack Benny was born on this day in 1894 Waukegan, Illinois.

Let your mind be open like the sky, and then let all the thoughts float freely like clouds. Let yourself remain in that state, and then you will actually experience being aware of awareness in your day-to-day life. – Za Choeje Rinpoche

We usually have no way to make use of these brief flashes of insight. But if we have even a glimpse of the big sky, we can learn to value these experiences and start to cultivate them. You could say this is one of the main purposes of meditation: to slow down enough to notice there are always gaps in our dense, thought-filled experience—and to become familiar with these gaps as glimpses of the unfabricated, nonconceptual nature of mind. – Pema Chödrön

Dot Fisher-Smith on being a child at 96 and still playing on The Way.