remembering
rub your arms moments: are you listening?
On 30, Nov 2011 | No Comments | In remembering | By Natalie
i once had a teacher
who would rub her arms
full of goosebumps and implore
her class,
“shhh! shhhh!!
did you hear it?!
weren’t you listening?!”
sometimes C’s.
and told us we weren’t trying hard enough,
just when we thought we were.
she marched out when we were
us with silence, when we
she made us do it
again & again & again.
we would say, i’m no good.
it didn’t matter.
because she taught us
what she was.
she taught us these things.
she taught us
our own voice.
she taught us to
notice the moments.
she would gasp.
and glow.
her excitement
and wonder penetrating the room,
rubbing her arms.
“did you hear it?!
are you listening?”
the body knows beauty.
but she taught us to listen for it.
and appreciate it.
this teacher
she doesn’t know.
she can’t.
of how often my mind wanders to her.
to her classes
where she would push and push us.
bubble with pleasure
rubbing to her arms…
because of her,
there is always something for me
about a choir…
those moments.
only envoked by voices
working together.
to create
those moments of perfection… harmony
and utter beauty.
hmmm…
it touches something deep inside.
do you hear it?
are you listening?
may choirs find you.
or
may you find them.
and may you notice
the moments.
and rub arms full of goosebumps.
let the season begin,
natalie.
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