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"Oh my my my my, what an eager little mind!"

Auntie Mame

Monday, June 18, 2012

Answer #8- Just Move

Shiva, Lord of the Dance, is often depicted in this symbolic pose holding the universe in balance between creation and destruction. In the dance of the cosmos everything is in cycle, in constant motion and transition. Every atom is moving. Nothing is ever still. We're all just vibrations of energy. As I sit here typing I am on a speeding planet  revolving from day to night and orbiting around its' sun in a solar system slowly moving outward from the center of the Milky Way as our galaxy whirls through space with infinite other galaxies hurling to God knows where. (And here am I scared to get on a roller coaster.)
 I think Vincent understood the Cosmic Dance.
We are all, always in motion, and as mammals with muscle, joints, and bones, we are designed to move. Maybe we're not all thoroughbred racers or muscled beasts of prey but movement engages us with life, fills us with energy, sharpens the mind and the senses, boosts our serotonin, clears the cobwebs, and literally makes us feel more alive. It doesn't matter the age or even our obstacles.

 Twyla Tharp at Seventy:
I never imagined I would be like I am at 62. In my Twenties I would have pictured me as a white haired old lady knitting in a rocking chair. Knitting is good. I do that. I have occasionally rocked (I went to a Radiohead concert in March) but I realize I have been so busy during my life, so full of movement, that I never noticed I was "getting older" I can't imagine stopping now. Let me clarify that I hate exercise. It's a chore. I have tricked myself all these years by disguising it in dance. (Or walking the dog.) And I have motivated myself by doing it for a living. Getting paid is a great incentive to move. And even though I can't do all the things I used to do (Oh stop showing off, Twyla!) I can still embarrass my children by turning on my iTunes and doing my interpretive dance moves in the kitchen. In the kitchen in my town on this planet in this solar system in this universe I am dancing with the stars.
No, that's not going to appear on YouTube anytime soon so here's my hand in action.

And here are some of the members of my Yoga class, many my age or older. The lady on the far right, Tommie, is in her Eighties. Her philosophy of life is: "Whatever floats your boat". Look at them go!



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