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When your name comes

When your name comes

Fuzzy Red Boots
When I was born it was decided that I would take the name of my grandmother from my father’s side, which was something quite common in the place I was born. Although this has been a tradition for as long as people were giving birth in this land, a movement of ancestral homage to the lineage before them, it is a movement that encloses systemic risks. Taking the name of one of your ancestors potentially means that you are also assuming part of that ancestor’s fate; the good and the bad parts, the qualities but also the hurdles, the agonies, the systemic entanglements. In a way it is like a heritage that you embody unknowingly because you have recognized and accepted another person’s history and presence. I believe that none…
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How Do I Join In? The Movement to a Collective Presence

How Do I Join In? The Movement to a Collective Presence

Fuzzy Red Boots
Given the choice of a life full of supportive family imprints, a loving intimate relationship and a selective precious bunch of devoted friends, who would you be willing to be? What aspects of you would you care to bring forward to be able to receive this level of happiness? Recently, I had a conundrum presented to me, out of left field. Somewhere during the last semester of a-two-year training, some students expressed the desire to join a new practicing group, which happened to be my third practicing group that I had signed in. Since the requirements for practicing hours in the training were stipulated and were known to everyone from the start, it amazed me that this request was expressed close to the end of our programme. In this group,…
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Not alone; connected

Not alone; connected

Fuzzy Red Boots
“You cannot do it alone”, “You are not doing it alone”. Nobody can do it alone.  Nobody is doing it alone. One cannot do it alone because the concept of alone does not really exist. Nothing is alone because nothing exists or is created autonomously. All are overwhelmingly present in all dimensions and contribute to all the movements, vibrations and breaths of this Universe. There is no gap anywhere and ever. Everything speaks and converses with each other in imperceptible signals, which change form to become subtle and merge seamlessly with the signified, the message, the stimulus. What allows things to coexist in a state of inter-balance and symbiosis is this perpetual flow of connection, the connecting communication pulse transmitted ceaselessly by emitters and receivers, both consenting to a life…
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