Last week I got mail...the kind of mail I will always think of as "real" mail...the kind the postman delivers...the kind that whenever I see handwritten script I immediately open first...so I did...
Inside was a lovely surprise...a gift certificate for two hours of Shiatsu work from an expert...Tamara Samsa, Executive Director at the Healing Roots Center in Sacramento...
It is a beautiful gift card...adorned with the center's logo...embellished with an arabesque depicting tendrils of leafing, flowering vine...as I admired it, I also considered how long it has been since I have received bodywork of any kind...and I came to realize that I have become completely out of touch...truly...no pun intended...with my physical being...
I realized that I have not been giving my body the attention it needs...this session is something I have been longing for...something I have made a very low priority...until now...
This likely does not seem all that curious to those who don't know me...but those who do...those who know I have thousands of hours of bodywork training...those who know I used to have my own practice in an office above the now defunct Golden Raye bookstore...those who received my touch and attention...well, those people are probably a little surprised...
And me? I am completely and utterly touched...by the love of good fiends...who felt what I most need...before I did...and found a way for me to give it to myself...
For those friends, my heartfelt thank you...
Gift certificate from the Healing Roots Center in Sacramento, California...