celebrating

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