Notes:
- SMWI*: Saturday Morning Workout Inspiration.
- Source: Allen Parseghian via Carol @ Radiating Blossom. Extreme backbend (Svetlana Bednenko of Mikhailovsky Ballet)
Tag: Ballet
SMWI*: 44 secs w Bolshoi
I was 14 at the time. It was an cool evening in Moscow as we entered the famed Bolshoi Theatre. The performance was Swan Lake. It was a full house. Other memories? My disinterest. My restlessness. The tall, soft ice cream cones at the intermission. I remember Nothing. I missed Everything.
Notes:
- SMWI* = Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
- Source: Thank you Your Eyes Blaze Out
SMWI*: Alternate Universe vs. Reality
An alternate universe: Beauty. Grace. Health.
An then the unfortunate reality:
Notes:
- SMWI* = Saturday Morning Workout Inspiration
- Ballet Dancer Photo: Ronnie Boehm, A. Ion, Vienna State Opera Ballet School. Thank you Carol at Radiating Blossom
- Sad Monkey Belly Picture: themetapicture.com
Lightly child, lightly
Credits:
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
- Image Source: Daniele Pezzela via Your Eyes Blaze Out
Just Livin’
NS: Name?
DK: David K-A-N-I-G-A-N. No middle initial. (Here we go again.)
NS: Height?
DK: 6’1″.
NS: Weight?
DK: (Pause)
NS: (Smiling) We can weigh you when we get inside.
DK: Today or this month’s average?
NS: Today.
DK: 208. (She doesn’t know that you’re up 10. Why avert your eyes you coward?)
NS: Name of GP?
DK: (Pause) Don’t have one.
NS: Don’t have a GP?
DK: It’s been a while.
NS: Date of last physical?
DK: (Pause) Don’t remember. (She steals a glance at my ID. Checking DOB.)
NS: Blood type?
DK: No idea.
NS: (Staring eye-ball-to-eyeball now)
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