Greetings Folks!

Moustapha Bangoura is touring and teaching. His new web page built,
maintained, and updated as a labor of love by yours truly now reflects the
latest information available. Soon come is Moustapha's dance video, which I
eagerly await as I am sure it is fantastic.

Please visit:
<http://lebagatae.com/Tour.htm> for the details.

Drumming Peace, R
<http://home.acceleration.net/clark/>
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"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great
teacher." -Japanese proverb

"There are different ways of listening to music. There is a technical state
when a person who is developing technique and has learnt to appreciate
better music, feels disturbed by a lower grade of music. But there is a
spiritual way, which has nothing to do with technique. It is simply to tune
oneself to the music."
-Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufi master)

"It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the
universe, do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the
Vishnu-lila, lila meaning "play." And they look upon the whole
manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of
dance - lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt."
- Alan Watts (Zen and the Beat Way)

"Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried,
even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we
also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we
need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its
disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful."
- Margaret Guenther (Toward Holy Ground)

"He that lives in hope dances without music."
- George Herbert (as quoted in *Joy* by Beverly Elaine Eanes)

"Deep within each of us is the urge to know and to be known. It is as
central to the core of our being as is the urge to dance in the sunshine or
cry at weddings or sing in the shower or laugh at children or fall backward
into the snow."
- Robert Benson (Between the Dreaming and the Coming True)

"When we play, we sense no limitations.
In fact, when we are playing,
we are usually unaware of ourselves.
Self-observation goes out the window.
We forget all those past lessons of life,
forget our potential foolishness,
forget ourselves.
We immerse ourselves in the act of play.
And we become free."
- Lenore Terr (Beyond Love and Work)

May there be today, peace within
May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are
meant to be....
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love
that has been given to you....
May you be content knowing you are a child of God....
Let this presence settle into your bones,
and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance and to bask in the
sun….
It is there for each and everyone of you….
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"The important thing is not to think much,
but to love much;
and so, do that which best stirs you to love."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Spanish nun who founded the reformed order of the Carmelites in 1562)
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