Earth's gentle hug

           My yoga instructor calls gravity “Earth’s gentle hug.” Let the weight of your body go. Receive Earth’s embrace. There are great possibilities here. I’m not lazy. I’m getting a hug, a very long hug. The Earth never releases first.
            Earth’s hug isn’t always gentle if you don’t pay attention. For instance, when you think there’s a chair, but there isn’t, the hug might be painful or embarrassing. Earth’s hug can be messy. Yesterday I ate an “out of control roll” from a sushi restaurant. It was covered with roe – tiny, red, luminous balls. I kept finding them on my clothes, like red mites. Earth hugged them all over me. 
            Liberation from Earth’s hug can be thrilling. On a trampoline, at the apex of your rising, you feel weightless freedom, but I wouldn’t want to sustain it for long. All things considered, I’ll take the forever hug.

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