words i am pondering today



Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.--Desmond Tutu


Monday, April 6, 2009

beauty, embodied

I never "got" ballet before seeing this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNWVYT-yltY

pure beauty--Edenic.

One commentor said she could not play the video in front of her childen; I dunno, I rather think there are times and places for nudity, and this is one of them. In fact, is it wrong to wonder if God Himself enjoyed this moment of beauty, the melding of music, movement and physical perfection?

I do feel kinda bad for the male dancer, though--when they are dancing together, who is looking at him? She is just too splendid, too sumptuous. But yet she would not be. . . complete, without him as her physical foil and counterpart. Together they embody the spirit of "one flesh" in a way that is elevated beyond nakedness, beyond sexuality.

1 comment:

  1. why would anyone think that's unfit for children?
    My girls wouldn't be fazed by her nakedness-they love being naked. Edenic is the right word-Lisa1 beautiful

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