ASPECTS OF SHE: Mittie Babette Roger

ASPECTS OF HER: I am SHE

 In my life I have known many aspects of the Goddess embodied in the women around my life. The aspects have ranged from women I love and admire to those I have found extremely challenging, like my mother.  And yet, all have shown me that they are SHE. 

Is the drop of the ocean anything other than the ocean?

On this blog, I would like to tell stories of some of these aspects of the SHE, including at some point my own mother.

Each of these women have impacted my life in deep ways and through them I have grown to love and respect more parts of myself. 

I first Mittie, a beautiful young bubbly woman I took to be in her mid  20's, in a belly dance class. Mittie has a beautiful body well suited to showing off the midriff area . I could tell she had worked hard on dance of all kinds. She introduces herself after my first class, " hi , I am Mittie," and she points to her middle as a visual que for her name. I can tell she loves to help people learn.

I always wonder how young people like her can make a living here in Mexico. She tells me she is a teacher. I suspect she is a good one. She teaches English to young students in a school. In two years she has also become fluent in Spanish. Her story includes her father and his wife living also in San Miguel de Allende .They had been "wiped out" in the hurricane Katrina that hit the New Orleans area. In a leap of faith they relocated to Mexico and he started a tequila business and she, a high end resale business. Mittie had come to visit and fell in love- not only with San Miguel and Mexico but a handsome young Mexican artist. They moved into together.

She had danced in many forms over most of her life. And on a creative level the artist seemed like a good match for her. I watched as Mittie over the next year in class develop into the embodiment of the Goddess through tribal style belly dance.

 She had quit teaching and now was traveling  to promote her father's tequila business in the US.  I would say she had the perfect personality to be in sales, bubbly , warm, confident, and above all genuine.

Genuine and authentic rank high on my attractive womanly attributes list. 

I strive for the high road myself. Not always achieving it but always looking for it. So I admire those on the same path. Mittie jokingly asked me one time where I ranked her on the my scale and I told her that she was a 10, jokingly of course.

But on the serious side, there really was not anything I did not like about Mittie.

She is kind, respectful, and funny. In class she treated me like everyone else. Women my age in the US are often marginalized and invisible to the young. I had experienced this once or twice in a Waldorf school town with lots of young,hip, "in" parents.  Mittie on the other hand, went out of her way to help me through my directionally challenged brain. In class I was often extending the wrong arm up or out, starting on the wrong leg ect.  Mittie would smile and either mirror to me the posture or physically move me into the correct posture.

A true pinnacle in Mittie's life arrived about 1 1/2 years after I met her. She and and another young woman studying belly dance were given major roles in a dance and drum show. Wearing a borrowed golden outfit, she had a six minute solo and a number that included balancing a sword on her head. It was breathtakingly beautiful. She had truly become the Goddess. 

Her artist partner was in the audience that night. After, I smiled and told him how wonderful it was. He smiled

back but did not seem to me  to be glowing with pride. Had he just seen too much belly dance?? I suspected more was going on.

Within 6 months of her stunning performance she would be moving on. He had asked her to stop dancing and traveling. While his artistic endeavors were never in question. 

Mittie moved on well.

She still respects her past partner and acknowledges his gifts to her life.

She moved on with pride and self respect because she recognizes on some level that she is SHE and can not be disrespected or put down. It is time. Time for the Goddess to stand forth. Be all that she is here to be.

She not only shows this respect for herself but for all of us. 

She is SHE.

( This gorgeous photo by our friend SEAN REAGAN)