{"id":4643,"date":"2016-12-22T09:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T08:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T08:43:07","slug":"would-you-like-to-swing-on-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/would-you-like-to-swing-on-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you like to swing on a star?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Spooky & Sue 1974\u2026 Sue was one of my first idols\u2026 the way she moved, she smiled, her eyes, her fillet, her pants\u2026 she totally got it\u2026. I wanted to look like Sue.
\nIn her song Swinging on a star <\/a>she warned us not to grow up to be a mule or a pig, but to swing on a star instead. The original song is from Bing Crosby 1944, a traditional white guy, 30 years later same song, sung by two beautiful black flower power people, overflowing with a bubbly life energy\u2026<\/p>\n

Last week somewhere on FB I read\u00a0 ‘it\u2019s racism to compare a human being with an animal’\u2026
\nI was shaken by the intensity of this post and shocked by the thread of friends that followed, blaming and execrating the one who innocently shared seeing similarities between this human being and an animal. Since then I\u2019m so aware of people looking like animals and I noticed people are compared with animals all the time and everywhere\u2026 how often I do this myself! My youngest daughter looks like an otter, my middle one balances between a swan and a piglet, my husband is a silver back, I was once told I looked like a hedgehog, last week I told a friend she looked like one of those amazing cows I saw in the polder\u2026.<\/p>\n

It becomes edgy when a white human being is impressed by a beautiful black human being, seeing similarities with a gorilla\u2026\u00a0 wow\u2026 how tender are our painful spots, how painful our histories, how huge our collective painbodies\u2026 how fragile we are… how clumpsy we can be… how easily we unintentionally hit on those awfully painful spots… with the ones we know and don’t know, with the ones we love and are dear to us… I wish we would be able to simply say we got hurt in stead of blaming and giving food for hatred and separation… we would have different conversations if we could be open about our feeling hurt and our hurt feelings \u2026
\nwe could meet…<\/p>\n

We could just be there for each other in those painful moments… we could listen, learn from each other’s intentions, apologize, say sorry, give and receive forgiveness… how healing would it be to share our hurts and hearts, to give all our loving attention and hold each other safely right there in our painful spots; with compassion and loving care; we can heal ourselves and others … wounded healers …<\/p>\n

Why would we grow up to be a mule or a pig, when we could also be swinging on a star\u2026 together… let\u2019s not pass on the light these days\u2026 let\u2019s be the light\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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