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Details: Tuesday, 28 February 2023; Written by Eve Moore; Views: 2221

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No leap, this last day

of this briefest month

of life on earth that

tucks within its soft

pelt the arrival of next,

— at least not in the

calendar sense —

just crystals falling

from the heavens

to earth, pure as

this driven snow.

It is the groundhog

long asleep under

the brilliant white who

initiates the month and

the end of winter

by seeing his

shadow —

or not.

A sacred day

in so many ways,

this two of two, I found

myself watching for

the second time in

as many decades,

Groundhog Day.

The film.

Thanks to an impromptu

interaction on that day of

my annual rebirth at the farm-

to-market where I buy our week’s

worth of food, I was introduced

to a ‘birthday twin’ who said

it was her tradition to

watch the film

on her day.

Of an age wherein Bill Murray

is a favorite actor-out of such an

array of human foibles and folly,

I realized I’d resisted this film

of his over the years.

Not that I was aware

of this resistance.

Curious, I, too,

watched.

And saw.

Ascension.

The human journey of

ascending is the journey

this character takes on this

single day that repeats, each

a lifetime, each an opportunity

to meet a higher moment with

every person, circumstance,

interaction he finds within

the seemingly same loop

of day unfolding at the

prompt of a black

and white alarm

intoning:

"I Got You Babe."

[Sonny and Cher’s

paean to a love that

served theirs, our

world, for a time.]

Wow. I hadn’t seen

this the first time

I saw this film.

But I had

different eyes

then, I see.

For the journey

was one of surrender;

one of dismantling all

the layers one life

lives within each

day of one’s life.

Hides under,

like our friend

the groundhog.

Hibernating

the winter

away rather

than meeting

it, living it.

Its choice.

Like ours.

Once all that was

in the way of this

one man’s life

being lived

was removed,

by sheer repetition

of… how does

Becket put it?

“Ever tried.

Ever failed.

No matter.

Try again.

Fail again.

Fail better.”

… air.

Yes.

It is the conceit

of the film, the crux

of what we, each/all

are presently

bringing

into being,

methinks.

Ever tried.

Ever failed.

From Old French

faillir (verb), faille (noun),

whose base is the Latin

fallere ‘deceive.’

Whoa.

Lifting the layers

of that which has

deceptively lured

us away from our

power to be.

Open.

True.

Willing

to love and

be loved —no

easy task.

What’s behind

the deception?

Fear.

Of course.

Fear

of being

seen, found

unworthy.

Fear of

our own

indelible

shadow.

So we put

lots of layers

on to keep out

the cold, the

winter. The

death that

each day

brings

only to

birth

new

days.

The change

inherent in

everyday

life, written

in every atom

of our being.

Learning,

day by day

to let go.

Once we do,

we find what

we were looking

for all along.

Love.

Connection.

Interdependency.

We move from

deep isolation

within ourselves

to attachment

with all that is.

Ascending

fear as our

driver to

love as

our

warm

place to

dwell.

To leap.

The bridge

in "I Got You Babe":

I got you to hold my hand

I got you to understand

I got you to walk with me

I got you to talk with me

I got you to hold me tight

I got you, I won’t let go

i got you to love me so

∞/∞

Eve Moore: Once a professional writer of advertising, I saw the light & it has shown me words of a different nature. And so I take them down & offer them up. And all is well.

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—Jimi Hendrix

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