RIVERDANCE

Riverdance was AWESOME- Two friends went with me Sat to see the show at the Wharton Center in East Lansing.  The intricate footwork/dancing was amasing.  It was dizzying watching their feet/legs move.  I have the tape of their preformance but live is so much better. This is their final tour in the USA so I am so glad I got to see them.  The hard work it takes for them to get to dance at this level boggles my mind.  While I knew when I was 3-4 years old that I wanted to be a nurse I didn't have to do anything special except study in school and get decent grades, which was expected of me no matter what I wanted to be.  But these dancers started learning to dance/train when they were 3-4 years old!  They had competitions to win and always new steps and dances to learn while the rest of us were playing.  Such dedication to their dreams from such an early age amazes me.  How many people are in college today not knowing what they want to be when they "grow up" but these dancers knew at an early age what they wanted to be in life and went after it.  I thank them for the joy they give those of who are fortunate to watch them. 

The Road Less Traveled

This morning I was looking out my kitchen window and watched my young neighbor start off for school.  He is a 3rd or 4th grader and typical for a young boy he chose not to walk down the driveway that had only about and inch of snow but walked thru the yard with more than a foot of snow with higher drifts.  At times he really struggled to get thru the drifts but he trugged on and made it to the road and then ran off down the road.  It reminded me that as creative people we need to sometimes go not down the roads that  are easy and known to us but to try new things even if we struggle at first learning a new technique.  The pictures I took near Brimley,MI a few weeks ago when I went up there to visit friends.  Snow covered and beautiful.