Spiritual Waters, or Navigating Our Own Blockades of the Creative Life

Vanessa Blakeslee
8 min readMar 26, 2020
“Spiritual Waters” by Gypsy Sa’har, Orlando Bellydance Performance Company

July in Orlando. The air, dense with moisture, erupts into a downpour nearly every afternoon. Puddles swell, parking lots flood. The water sloshes onto the thin fabric of my dance pants as I hurry into the Winter Park Community Center, where I meet up with other members of Gypsy Sa’har; the center has a full-size dance studio, available to residents free of charge…

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Vanessa Blakeslee

American fiction writer, essayist, literary critic. Award-winning author of Perfect Conditions: stories (2018), Foreword Reviews Editors’ Choice (Gold).