Jamie Korf is a teacher and community organizer.

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Dancing

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I've become much more aware of all the stuff that is in my body all the time trying to find a way to work itself out into the world, to leave the terrain of my lower back and my stomach and my hips and my shoulders, to get a chance to live.

It's desire and happiness and fear, shame and sadness and grief and hurting, nervousness and excitement and generosity and love. I don't know how I didn't know about this before, how I wasn't aware of it.

Like it was dead to me, like I had just locked my body down. That's why dancing was so hard, why it made me want to cry every single time for awh...

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