My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.
To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:
I wished last night that I could do some jumping and turning, as I miss that from all my other African dance classes. One day I will just go again to those and the devil can take the hindmost. No one has the right to limit my steps in this world. If someone decides to treat me wrongly, THEY will be asked to leave, not me. I am not a victim nor will I act like one. I am also not a second class citizen and no one has the right to take anything like this from me, even if they think they do. All I care about is being able to dance.
Anyway..wishing for jumping, S. The instructor in Haitian dance taught doubts today, a dance mimicking work, but full turns, jumps, and spins. Be careful what you ask for!!
I think I love djouba best...it is a balance of hard work and a playful ending.
Here is a group playing djouba almost exactly as it was played tonight:
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