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		<title>Wild Child #188 </title>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Rhythm of Life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wild Child Ever stop and wonder about the rhythm that you are walking to at this time of life?  Wonder about the times when you have been dancing to a&#8230;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wild Child</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever stop and wonder about the rhythm that you are walking to at this time of life? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wonder about the times when you have been dancing to a calm tune or one that is wild. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is music that brings out a reason to go toe tapping with friends or privately sway to the beat as dishes are being swished through hot water. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s stay with the fun of wild child music that may have come to you. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can close your eyes and listen to them now. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ones that come to mind for me are about going around in circles playing games as a child as I looked up to see what lies in the clouds. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then dashing to and fro in leaps and bounds to go on and on with new music. </span></p>
<h2>Wild Child talks about feeling alive.</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a song by Enya that shares more in a verse. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkk0puI6NfA"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wild Child </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">talks more about feeling alive and knowing that you’ve missed nothing. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever feel alive</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">And you&#8217;ve nothing missing</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">You don&#8217;t need a reason</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let the day go on and on</span></i></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is the joy that I’ve felt many times. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking up, seeing what there is to be seen, and dancing to the tune being played. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are times in the year that these clouds go from white and fluffy to suddenly raining down with thunder and splashing </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other times the splashing has come with new young people in my realm. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seeing the puddles that are ready to jump in and hop over. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Picture this with me. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A flash of a joyful grin came as an invitation to run through the recently fallen rain was sent with the look.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes! It was time to go with the rhythm of the moment. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s dance every summer that we can when this comes to us. </span></p>
<h2>Little ones and tall ones have sent this wild child look to me.</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Little ones and tall ones have sent this wild child look to me over the years. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think of the words that come to you now. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are they still there with people you have near you? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feel them pulling you in and let the love for you go on and on. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That could be the part of the rhythm and the dance that belongs to you. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even when the rain has fallen down all around, there is time to let the wild child rhythm flow. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are other ways to let the flow come. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These </span><a href="https://juliapearce.net/2021/07/12/clouds/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clouds</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> also bring reminders of joy, and what can be found in our own backyards. </span></p>
<h2>Moments of letting a wild side be free.</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perhaps there is a way. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does that come with moments of letting a wild side be free?</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What could that look like for each of us? </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For me it has looked like these things over time. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dancing as a wild child, jumping over puddles and looking up at the clouds to see what joy can come in the moment. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That is what I now know. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How can you look up to see what the moment brings for you? </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think about the rhythm of your life and wonder about where you are walking to next. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Life can bring you unexpected ways to jump and dance. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s do this one step at a time together, my friends. </span></p>
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