What is Intimacy?
Posted by Robin Easton
“A compilation of your intimate thoughts, insights and experiences.”
(IF THE VIDEO IS BUFFERING: You can hit pause and wait for it to fully load while you read the text, and then come back and watch it. That way you won’t watch it in “starts and stops”. Enjoy, Robin.)
My beautiful friends, This “Intimacy Contest” was deeply moving for me. I felt touched by the Creator while reading your comments…and responding to them. I’ve had an enormous work load lately and had almost no time for blogging. Yet, I felt tremendously connected to you, far beyond the ethers of the internet. I read all your comments to my sweetheart. He was “stilled” by your beauty. It’s as if on a soul level you all have been with me this last week, supporting me and instilling Life into me.
I’ve created a slide show using the comments of people who wrote specifically about intimacy. It is my heartfelt gift to you. I hope you experience the beauty I experience in you. I’ve only used your avatar name or first name. I had to edit many comments and condense sentences to a line or two as there were so many. The rest of you that left other types of comments deeply touched me by your richly kind and supportive words.
The music to this video is a song titled, “Rainforest Mist”. The original song has words and is played on a piano. But for this video I wanted something more intimate so I hummed the song. There is no piano and no words. To me humming — with no instrumentals — left me feeling vulnerable. I think to fully embrace intimacy we must allow ourselves to experience vulnerability, heart to heart and soul to soul. So in humming this song I share my soul. While doing this slide show I felt overwhelming love for you all. You are each unique and infinitely beautiful. I’m honored to know you.
NOW, for the winner! I typed out the names of everyone who left a comment and then cut them, folded each name in half and put them into my Australian “Snowy River” hat. Then I mixed them all up, set the hat on my piano keys, sat on the floor — so I couldn’t see — and then picked a name. 
My heart was POUNDING. I was a wreck!! “How do people do this?” Especially when you love all the people in the hat. My sweetheart called right after I drew the winner and asked, “Are you okay? You sound a bit shaky or breathless.” When I told him I’d just drawn the winner, he laughed and said, “Yeah, that must be hard.”
So, the winner is EDDIE of THE CLIFF WALK eddie (who spells his name with a small e) is a highly unique and creative photographer. He forever delights me with how he sees the world…and WHAT he sees in the world. If you’ve not met him, go explore his site – THE CLIFF WALK. You won’t regret it. Congratulations eddie! You are the proud owner of a new t-shirt! (chuckles).
I thank you all for sharing a part of yourselves with me. I find myself profoundly honored and moved by your souls. I will have more contests and surprises coming down the road. So stay tuned my dear dear friends. I hope to visit you soon.
Love,
Robin
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29 Comments so far...
Mel Says:
18 February 2009 at 7:03 pm.
Hola querida Robin,
Thank YOU for being there. You’ve been a great inspiration, motivation and support in more than one occasion.
Besos,
Mel
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Lilly Says:
18 February 2009 at 7:57 pm.
Robin the video was beautiful and your song even moreso. I loved your humming. Your voice has a musicality that is perfect for the video. I could listen to it for a long time.
And CONGRATULATIONS to eddie, yoo hoo!!!
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Kit Says:
18 February 2009 at 8:53 pm.
Congratulations, eddie!
Robin, the video is beautiful! What a fantastic compilation, and I loved your humming. It was THE perfect accompaniment.
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eddie Says:
18 February 2009 at 10:50 pm.
Wowie Zowie…c’est moi… my luck is changing…spring is in the air… and just think it was pure luck…no merit involved..
Just remember…i don’t do ‘white’…black only and with a v_neck please.
I spose I hafta pay for it too right?… ;^)
tks Robin for all your inspired effort and for the plug Too!
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Wenny Yap Says:
18 February 2009 at 11:02 pm.
Too bad I missed the contest. It’s interesting not to look at intimacy from the normal angle of lovers and spouses. Intimacies with God’s other given gifts in this world are always overlooked. You have started a great effort.
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Michelle (Artscapes) Says:
19 February 2009 at 12:05 am.
Congratulations, eddie!!
I really enjoyed the exercise, Robin. Thanks for doing this. I plan to make the idea of setting a journal entry to a word a habit.
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Michael C. Dewey Says:
19 February 2009 at 12:37 am.
That was Beautiful.
This may not be the place but can you tell me more about wordpress, and how to post videos in it?
I would really like to know how to move my blogs to hear. About 5 of them are not going to change and I wish were more widely read.
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earthtoholly Says:
19 February 2009 at 8:03 am.
First off, a big congrats to eddie! Enjoy your tee!
Hi Robin…thank you so much for including my thoughts in your beautiful video. And you have a beautiful voice…I’m hoping you will sing for us sometime in the future??? I think it is inevitable! BTW, I love your playlist… 
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Julie Says:
19 February 2009 at 10:28 am.
Robin, Robin… That was simply wonderful. Your haunting melody and clear voice were the perfect complements. But the WORDS!… They became so HUGE, so filled with massive feeling when pulled from the fluff of the rest of the paragraphs. Standing alone as they do in your video…well, they become wisdom. Imagine; we did that. Who’d have thunk it, that ordinary people could have such beauty within. 
You did, that’s who. Well, of course we all knew it, too, but you’re the one who knocked on our doors, inviting us to play. Thank you, Robin!
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Liara Covert Says:
19 February 2009 at 11:24 am.
Your creative gestures inspire and strengthen the souls of your readers. When you work with the subtle energies that are revelaed in a person’s thoughts, you are slowy gaining insight into a deeper spirit inside yourself. With each blogpost, you invite each person to expand and choose to explore the world they create. Each being is in the midst of an intricate dance of physial and emotional pain and healing at the same time. Everything is connected. As you set deliberate intention to heal yourself, each activity you engage in is connected with your process.
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the fearless blog Says:
19 February 2009 at 12:11 pm.
Robin
What an inspiring video! The words are so moving and I felt your song run through my body as I heard it, really making me feel relaxed, soothed and balanced. We don’t always need words to communicate a feeling, and you have proved that perfectly in this post.
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Angela Says:
19 February 2009 at 1:44 pm.
Hi Robin,
I loved the video and your voice is positively haunting and beautiful. It went deep inside and sat in my soul. It doesn’t get more intimate than that!
Thank you.
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Ophelia Rising Says:
19 February 2009 at 2:48 pm.
Robin, I must deeply apologize to you for being so absent. I did read your recent posts, and wanted so much to respond, but wanted to think about it before I did, and time seemed to just go. I love your exquisite voice, and the lovely collage of thoughts and photos here from the amazing people who respond to you. You continually inspire and amaze me, and I am thankful for you.
I just wanted to add that the thought of intimacy helps me a great deal in my life lately, as I feel as if I tend to bulldoze my way through the days sometimes, as if I am in a race and need to win something – (The prize of getting the most things accomplished in a day? The most cups of tea consumed in an afternoon? The honor of being the most exhausted as I fall into bed?) – and not paying attention. I feel as if the intimacy can be in the taking care, the tenderness of moments, of freeing my mind so much that I am not separate, but become everything. The light, the clouds, the darkness, the trees, my children, wind, breath – everything that is here. I had caught glimpses of this when I was deep into my meditation practice years ago, where I felt as if there were no boundaries between me and anything else, and how that feeling made me just joyous and absolutely ecstatic. There are no words for that feeling. But intimacy comes close.
I wrote a poem about this (again, years ago).
Thank you for letting me be here in this life
with no boundaries
where breath, like wind,
is shared
in warmth and rhythm
and as my heart opens
the boundaries will melt away.
Everyone is me.
And I am everyone.
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earthmother Says:
19 February 2009 at 9:17 pm.
That wasn’t humming. That was your soul singing us all awake! Beautiful. The perfect accompaniment for this video.
Thank you for distilling and compiling everyone’s comments in such a creative way, Robin. You have a gift for creating an environment here in Eden that really encourages each individual’s precious Light to shine. Such a blessing.
Only Love,
earthmother
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Larry (Guitar Musings) Says:
20 February 2009 at 10:25 am.
Congrats to eddie. Love his photos. My favorite is below. He references a Bruce Cockburn song, “Child of the Wind” for this photo. Robin, I think of you every time I hear this song.
http://www.thecliffwalk.com/entry/brown-green-dry-and-waiting#
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Robin Easton Says:
20 February 2009 at 12:03 pm.
Dear friends,
I thank you all for your lovely and thoughtful comments. They mean much to me and touch my heart. I am so glad you enjoyed this “team effort” slide show. You have inspired me for future projects. Ideas are simmering. How fun!! 
I felt great love while reading your thoughts on intimacy and while creating this slide show.
Love,
Robin
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Diane C. Says:
20 February 2009 at 2:23 pm.
I enjoyed every moment of your awesome “What is Intimacy?” video with those beautiful pictures, thoughts, and music.
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Chrissy Says:
20 February 2009 at 3:01 pm.
Blimin’ heck. I never realised how poetic we all sound…
I think I am going to have to check out your followers that I don’t know
You sound amazing on this Robin, really haunting and we have talked about talent recently…
Wow, I cried, it all sounds very beautiful…and I consider myself to be a cynic.
Nice one
Ooops I nearly forgot to say, well done Eddie *thumbs up*
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Lance Says:
20 February 2009 at 8:25 pm.
Robin, this is simply a wonderful gift you’re giving. What a beautiful way to share the thoughts of many. I find listening and reading to this video to be so calming and peaceful to my soul. Thank you, my dear friend…
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Michael C. Dewey Says:
21 February 2009 at 7:48 am.
Under the tramp Bridge in Petaluma a Small Mountian Lion crossed over me one night. It was a great site to see. There was a river which passed by the Bridge also. Many as me had had to spend a night under it from time to time. At least we knew we were safe from anyone under there.
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Evita Says:
21 February 2009 at 8:08 pm.
Hello Robin,
My goodness what an amazing gift you have given all of us and the world! This presentation is sooo beautiful and I feel so moved by how you incorporated a piece of all of us, those amazing images and your touching voice in that presentation video.
Robin you are truly such a rare gem – I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed watching this, I am overcome with such serenity – thank you again!
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Janet Gardner Says:
22 February 2009 at 9:07 am.
Hi Robin,
I am so sorry I missed out on your contest, I have just been so busy lately. I look foward to you having another one and I will particpate. I loved this video, moved me to tears. Your humming speaks to me that of a beautiful soul. Eckhart Tolle’s book a new earth helped me to reconnect or have intimacy with nature and all living things. We are taught as a child to see the tree, we are never taught to feel the tree, it’s life, it’s energy and how we are all connected. I view every living thing that way now, intimacy is a wonderful way to live your life everyday.
Janet
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Denise Meyer Says:
22 February 2009 at 12:55 pm.
Robin…just like a beautiful bird…flying about the world…delivering sweet words and beautiful music…touching the souls of so many…gently…tenderly and full of love!!! You are a truly amazing woman and we are all fortunate to have one person like you in our lives throughout our lifetime…”Love “Denise”
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Robb Says:
22 February 2009 at 3:05 pm.
Kia ora Robin,
I love what you have done with the words of all these wonderful people, and your music just is stunning as usual. You make me want to head out into Nature and just Be Quiet and Listen.
Aroha,
Robb
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sylvia Says:
23 February 2009 at 4:09 pm.
Lilly in Australia recommended your site to me and I’m very glad she did, it’s lovely and I look forward to visiting again. You have done lovely things with words and music. I live in Seattle, but was raised in west Texas, so am familiar with where you are now. Thank you.
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brainteaser Says:
24 February 2009 at 8:13 am.
My dear Robin,
I so missed you! I am so glad I am here reading you again — and listening to your great humming. It was soulful! I am so glad you chose to hum the song.
It’s so nice to be with you again and be inspired by you. You’re a breeze; hope you know that.
Looking forward to your next contests. Hope to be able to participate next time.
Take care my dear friend. Xoxo
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soulMerlin Says:
13 March 2009 at 4:12 pm.
Hi Robin ~ That truly is a wonderful video – so well put together and with such feeling and sensitivity.
Thank you so much
love
henry
Robin replies
Dear henry, this simple comment touched me deeply This video actually took a lot of work and yet the love I felt for everyone who left comments here compelled me to do it. And while doing it, I felt bathed in love. It was quite a remarkable experience, one of great joy. Thank YOU for seeing the sensitivity that went into it. You are a blessing. And love right back to you my dear friend.
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