Spirit Dancer's apparent solitude caught me off guard at first, but then I noticed the faces hiding in the background behind her. You can only just make them out --- like shapes chisled into rock, or moulded out of clouds --- and then I realized that she ISN'T alone, she just isn't worried about the other people. That's not to say that she doesn't care about them, because, as has been noted, her heart has an outpouring of light and compassion, but she is her own entity, and the opinions and observations of other people are not her primary concern.
'Dance as though nobody is watching you,' she sings, and from her the words are not just a re-used proverb, they are her life.
Her arms are spread wide, embracing, rejoycing, her eyes are closed, listening to music that only she can hear: if we listen closely enough, we might hear our own inner music, our own personal melody that is really only another bit of harmony in the great song of Unity.
Spirit Dancer believes that healing is best achieved in being ourselves, whoever, whatever, however that may be. She expresses herself by dancing as though she is alone, even when the world is watching. We must all find our own dance, our own creativity, our own identity, and then just BE. LIVE. And most importantly, GROW. Let the music change, let the winds shift and the seasons go around, and Celebrate each day of it, each budding flower, each growth spurt, and never do anything just because 'everybody else is doing it.'
This is the message Spirit Dancer gives to me. 'Be Unique,' she sings, 'Be all that you can be, and never stop growing.'
Maybe she was the inspiration for the new milk comercials, lol
