Dancing

"Dancing in heaven"..."Gotta dance!"

This is where I feel so free and so me.

I went to a swing dance class tonight...besides a guy who was probably fifty something, the average age group of the guys seemed to be about 16. The girls too were around 16, besides a few of us. In a class like this though...everyone's just learning to swing dance, so there's not this typical age classification/mentality that u see in society. I see this un-ageism too with volunteering. It's a nice feeling to not have only certain age groups talk and socialize together. Even if I seem like an older cousin...sister...gosh..maybe could even be their mother if I had a baby at 19...but I will put myself in cool older sister category cause I'm a cool cat! :)

I work with teens and it made me think of how much...dancing classes would help the kids I work with. I feel they would learn so much about going with the flow per say. And I feel it would really give them much more love for themselves. I think dance really gets to your soul and lifts you up. At some point, I'd even like to teach dance...when I learn lots of dance (salsa, swing, ballroom, etc) myself.

I think partner dance is so great because boys/girls, men/women learn not only how to dance but how to "dance", work with each other.

If everyone took these kinds of dance classes and really understood the lesson of working together that dancing is , there probably would be no domestic violence, rape, and maybe there would be world peace...yep, that would be quite a result of dancing and all the goodness that comes with honoring, listening, intuitively learning from each other. Could there be such compassion, love, thoughtful kindness created through dance? Me think maybe so.

In creative mode...because of Horchata

and i can't sleep from drinking horchata...which is a drink with rice and milk and more sugar than previously thought....from mi fave ristorante: La Sirena! http://photos13.flickr.com/18114245_4c70815df6_m.jpg