Charles calling a dance Charles Roth    roth@thedance.net     Photo Album     WWII    Fixed Header Bar    My TechBlog    IBS    Dance    Wedding    Songs & Plays    Tech Info    Buzzphraser    Linux Lunacy III    R.C. Balloons!    Resume    Emma New Year's Eve, 1999

I would have each couple turn, join and unjoin, be lost in the greater turning of other couples, woven in the circle of the dance, the song of long time flowing over them, so they may return, turn again in to themselves out of desire greater than their own belonging to all, to each, to the dance, and to the song that moves them through the night. What is fidelity?  To what does it hold?  The point of departure, or the turning road that is departure and absence and the way home?  What we are and what were once are far estranged.  For those who would not change, time is infidelity.  But we are married until death, and are betrothed to change.  By silence, so, I learn my song.  I earn my sunny fields by absence, once and to come.  And I love you as I love the dance that brings you out of the multitude in which you come and go. Love changes, and in change is true.     Wendell Berry

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