Light Dance Amidst Chaos

Lunch: I step from the confusion of the morning, from the too much to do, and not enough time, from the rushing, and the worries, out into a light snow, stand protected, and begin my lunch dance, my dance with T’ai Chi Chih.

It is a slow dance, a deliberate dance, at first a little awkward, unbalanced even. I feel uncertain. And then, the flow begins, first with a little tingling, then more tingling, then slowing, smoothing movement, and then the joy, the splash of light.

Now I am transformed. I am no longer a woman of flesh and bones, carrying the worries and troubles of the day. I am a light dancer, a dancing light being, splashing light over and over again on my face and my neck and my body. I pull in handfuls, armfuls of shining light, and it washes over me, nine times, eigthteen times, and again. I dance through light, the light that washes over me and through me and cleanses me and heals me, I am light within light, serenity within serenity, joy within joy.

– Mary Stebbins, TCC Student
Baldswinville, NY