ANNOUNCING "DANCE!" What is it this all about?

About this DANCE ! series of ongoing posts…:)  From time to time I get questions as to why I post these DANCE ! items. Here is the answer…  Most of us spend much too much time just sitting in front of these hypnotic, seductive, delicious little screens, living that part of our lives which has now become digital, and often, too sedentary. MIllions of years ago we used to spend our days climbing trees and running across the great savannas chasing food and/or mates, or alternatively, running away from our enemies.  There was a lot of motion in our lives, and about 99% of the need to move has now been eliminated by the comforts and conveniences of what passes for “civilized” life in the slow lane.  Many folks, and maybe you are one of them, do not even have the time to get out to a morning aerobics class: too much time getting there and back, roads too icy, too much snow, too hot, waiTing for calls, and ______________________________?  So I decided some long time back to put all this digital goodness to even higher service than community-building, sharing, creating, and generally going global in so many ways. I discovered that in fact, my GAIA Blog could serve yet another happy opportunity optimizing function: My Blog can become a music player !!!!  And I can “program” it with music that makes me want to wake up and bounce, sing, wiggle, leap, mambo,samba,salsa, rock, hustle, twist, and shake the booty !  Yes!  And all this for free from our friends at You Tube. So that is why we have Kenny Rogers, and the Rolling Stones, and Bob Marley and Brooks and Dunn, and Tina Turner and these DANCE! interludes.  When I am feeling like it is time to get up from my chair and move some, I just find a toon that appeals and let it rip until I have had a good rousing dance break, then, adrenaline up, I go back to work.  I realize that I have never actually explained this !  The DANCE! series is just one little corner of the universe where there is some rockin' music to put you back in touch with your body and chase away the “been sitting around here too long blues.”  I have given up long ago on “saving the world,” or even changing it.  I have modified my aspirations from creating world peace to supporting world sanity. But there is one place over which I have more or less complete control, and it is this space, the one you are looking at now. In this space, I can paint, write, share, dream and………………DANCE!!  Now you know.  Love, HAPPINESS


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