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ger. You will need a pair of scissors to shape the paper into<br />
feathery tips. Perhaps first check out the video footnoted<br />
on page 17.<br />
Put the video on pause at some point, create your own device<br />
and then continue watching me go into blissful spasms.<br />
I start with a light touch on the forehead . . . add toe<br />
wiggles to keep from going over the edge into the uncontrollable<br />
urge to tweak my nose that I call “The Shoo-Fly<br />
Syndrome.” Toe-wiggling keeps the dreaded Syndrome at<br />
bay! Other ways to control the urge is to blink and breathe<br />
deeply. Try the tip on your chin. For me, touching the chin<br />
area triggers a heartwave of compassion. Truly! Didn’t you<br />
ever do this with the rubber tip of a pencil as a child? Or<br />
something similar?<br />
These experiences regress me to things I did when very<br />
young. I am reminded of a comment a Bengali guru made<br />
when he visited our commune: “Divine infantilism,” he<br />
muttered. I’m not sure he meant it as a compliment, although<br />
thinking about it later, I decided he was right –<br />
we are all children ‘at play in the fields of the Goddess.’<br />
It may be the only level of divinity possible planetside<br />
that avoids patriarchal severity! More levity, please! More<br />
childlike fun!<br />
What’s great about Thwizzling is that anyone can do it,<br />
even bedridden seniors. If you do this at night in the dark,<br />
you can play a ‘surprise-me symphony’ on your face because<br />
you can’t predict where the touch will occur.<br />
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