Lauren.
So if you get right down to the blood relation thing she isn't really my daughter, she is my step-daughter...but I couldn't love her any more if she was mine...and quite truthfully I might love her more because she isn't, exactly, by blood relation...but, I have known her, and loved her, since she was four and well, that makes her mine anyway. Either way. She means everything to me.
She gave me this wonderful book for Valentine's Day...it is all about Dance. We love Dance. We love to Dance. We share this in common, along with many other things. I was so surprised by this book - I was vklempt. Because she didn't just buy me a book, she hand wrote numerous quotes in the book - all about Dance.
"It is with your feet that you move...But it is with your heart that you dance."
"Ballet is like dreaming on your feet."
"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
"Dancing is an art. The floor is my canvas and I am the brush...and I create whatever comes from the heart."
"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."
"Dance enables you to find yourself and at the same time lose yourself."
"In life as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet."
And, my favorite:
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
I am vkelmpt yet again as to what to say...Dance is all of those things and more. I miss Dance. I miss music running through my mind and my veins ... in 8 counts, of course, in such a way that it makes the world seem different. More tolerable, more lovely, more interesting, more sexy, more livable, more alive.
To my lovely Lauren, thank you so much for the gift that is you....and for the wonderful book you so thoughtfully put together for me.
To all of you - DANCE. It will make your soul feel better.
Love, spajunkie.
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