(Written in March 2008)
\nWe gave Helen a good send off last night.\u00a0 More than 20 people.\u00a0 Helen was an older woman who had danced with us for ten years.\u00a0 She died a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 We got together to do as many of her favorite dances as we could.\u00a0 We started with Gabi Gabi for ease and then did Inspiration Hasapico and Leben which most of the group could do.\u00a0 Then I felt a prompting to do Az so I said \u201cIf you don\u2019t already know it, you might as well sit down and watch.\u201d I reviewed it for the diehards and we did it.\u00a0 Several times in the evening I had a sense of Helen\u2019s pleasure in what we were doing.\u00a0 There were a lot of dances on the list and we didn\u2019t get to do all of them.\u00a0 Randi said something at the end of the evening, about what a great person I was, and the good energy I created.\u00a0 It felt good to be told that.\u00a0 Yes, I was \u201con\u201d last night.\u00a0 I was blazing, radiant, happy to create a joyous celebration for our friend Helen.\u00a0 This is who I am.\u00a0 This is what I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Written in March 2008) We gave Helen a good send off last night.\u00a0 More than 20 people.\u00a0 Helen was an older woman who had danced with us for ten years.\u00a0 She died a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 We got together … Continue reading