We’re Made to Dance: Let’s Do It!
We’re Made to Dance: Let’s Do It! It’s been a recent aim of mine to get up from the computer more, move around, juggle, dance, have an “exercise snack”, as they say. And just today I came across this support from one of my favourite authors. Here’s an quote of his, Kurt Vonnegut, (he’s talking...
Line Dancing
Recently I have felt the push-pull of the good news-bad news that surrounds us, and can easily drop into overwhelm… It seems to me kinda like walking a tight rope: I want to be careful not to fall into the slough of despair and despond on the one side, as I feel into all the scary and alarming...
Love and Bodies: Happy Valentine’s Day
Most Saturdays I dance! At a class called NIA, a wonderfully comprehensive and glorious gift to the body and the senses.In honor of Vanentine’s Day the theme of the class will be LOVE. The instructor, Judy Cashmore, is a sensitive, creative dynamo. I had another post in mind, which I will write soon, but today,...
Gratitude and Joy in Spite of It All…
“Let us be grateful and joyous even though we know the facts” is a prayer that a friend of mine heard when he was volunteering with a Lutheran community project recently. The prayer has stuck with me. There are so many “facts” nowadays that inspire less than gratitude and joy that I welcomed the reminder...
Probing Perfection
Looking at a large Japanese Red Maple in full fall color almost took my breath away recently. I was walking with my daughter in a very special outing, and did the entire Sea Wall, just the two of us. Lovely. We saw a huge fleet of migrating sea ducks at rest in English Bay. This...
Graceland!
Remember Paul Simon’s song and album Graceland? When the album came out in the late 80ies I spent hours and hours dancing to the music, being charmed by the weird and wonderful lyrics, transported and gripped by the rhythms, the blend of white and black, the pulse, the magic. Then last night I had the...
Wired for Joy!
At last writing, I mentioned how important it had become for me, in dealing with my dark side and the pains that I’d been having, to ‘Find the Feelings, and Feel the Feelings.’ One of the tools (we could call it learning a new step in My Dance with Pain :-)), which I have found extremely...
Dancing with the Dark Side
I hope you are having a good summer wherever you are. As I began this post I was winging my way home after a precious and memorable month with my two kids, and theirs, my four grandchildren. We had good weather on the flight, allowing a final glimpse of grandeur of the Austrian alps, the...
My Dance with Pain
Since I wrote about the aftermath of the slip and fall on ice with my granddaughter Lilly while visiting snowy Austria in January (Pain and Gain), I feel as though I have been dancing with pain — trying out and learning many different steps. It seems hard to believe that it’s been just a few...
Dance! There’s No Tomorrow!
Today is May Day, half way between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, also called Beltane. What better way to celebrate this ebullient and delicious turning than to Dance! I started to write Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow! but then I thought better, and left out the ‘Like’, because there IS no tomorrow, there’s only today! A...
Thanksgiving and Gratitude
This past weekend Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving. It has taken me a while to accept the second weekend in October as the date for this fine event, but I have come to feel that the season of harvest fullness is every bit as appropriate, no, actually much more appropriate, than dreary and soggy, late November! We...
