A Path To Less Stress

I've been unwinding after a busy but not terribly productive week. On on positive note, Tuesday's Inauguration was great, wasn't it?

Then it was back to life as I know it: looking for more work, juggling responsibilities, and pondering why problems sometimes hit us from sources we least expect - in our personal lives and the world. Then it's time to step back, reassess, problem solve, and de-stress.

Thus, my first Salsa lesson!

Click that link because right now YouTube and Blogger must be having some sort of pseudo-marital spat, and tell me what you think.




No, that ain't me in the video, but 25 years ago it coulda shoulda have been, 'cause paint me a shade or two darker and that was me. Not just the look, but something about her spirit as she conveys it through her dance... wildly feminine and utterly comfortable with it.

(Young sistas, that's a hint: enjoy your youth because time really does fly, and try to avoid excess snacking!)

And tell me the brotha in the video doesn't look like a lot of fun... If Salsa had been popular around the DC area in the late 70s to mid-80s, I'd have been on it.

However, on Friday night I was dancing with two left feet. Salsa might be like learning how to ride a bicycle, where you're the laughing stock of the 'hood in the beginning, but after you learn you never forget. I was so bad my friend who was trying to teach me asked if I was on crack.

Hmmm... maybe I shoulda been - it might have loosened me up.

Nah, that's a joke.

Anyway, in the wee hours of this morning, my mind roamed to a post I did a few days after Thanksgiving to get y'all thinking ahead of time about resolutions for the New Year. How are you doing with that?

So, on a serious note again, here's part of it below, which illustrates how our bad habits, or minimizing problems, or sticking around too long in a hopeless, toxic situation can get us into a hole.

Otherwise I'm still on chill mode for what's left of the weekend, and will try to visit your blogs soon and post something less fluffy here in a couple days. Have a blessed Sunday.



Chapter 1

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.


Chapter II

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in this same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.


Chapter III

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in... it's a habit... but,
my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.


Chapter IV

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the street.
I walk around it.


Chapter V

I walk down another street.