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Year Four, Day 141: Bus Stop Ballerina


      "It is the responsibility of every human, not just dancers, sports stars, kids, and Olympians—to move. To embrace movement. To become movement. To live movement. Because moving can turn a regular Monday into an extraordinary start to your week. It can turn Tuesday into a quest, Wednesday into an adventure, Thursday into a triumph, Friday into a feat. No matter how you spend your days, claiming your right to MOVE is like claiming your FREEDOM."
Cameron Díaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body


I am still on my movement kick.  I can't stop now! I am afraid.  Afraid that if I stop, I will revert to a slug again.

I do not want to be a slug.

So I am adding movement wherever and whenever I can!

In the morning, shortly after I rise, I do Qi Gong breathing and stretching, followed by a short weighted hoop workout.

Later, when my granddaughter is awake, we put on a Youtube video of a ballet class. Our favorite features the Royal Ballet School in the UK.

And on Saturday, as I waited for my Max train, I found a superb way to kill 11 minutes! I did ballet stretches along the handrail of the fence.

People stared. People do that. But shortly after I began, I noticed a man, about my age, doing stretches and squat on the handrail about 50 feet away from me.

He gave me a nod.

There's strength in numbers.  The starers averted their eyes, after they realized more than one of us was stretching on the handrail.  If it was just one lone, middle-aged woman, they probably thought I was crazy. But two people?  It must be a thing!




So I will continue doing my thing. And being myself.

Funny, throughout my day, my sensitive, insecure self pops up telling me I did something wrong, said something wrong, LOOKED wrong...But I've been telling that self to stop.  I am tired of adjusting myself to some "acceptable" norm. 

As long as I operate with the intention of LOVE running through my veins. that will be sufficient.

Jesus had something to say about love.  In fact, He had quite a bit to say!


"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.  You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.  These things I command you, so that you will love one another."
~ John 15:9-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

Happy Sunday, my friends!

Love,

Zita





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