another performance under my belt

Well, well, well..Ms. Strega has completed another performance with my troupe, Dancers of the Crescent Moon, today in San Jose. This was held at Hoover High, next to the Rosicrucian Museum. Click on the link to see last year's picture of the troupe; we posed at the Rosicrucian Museum (there are three pictures of me, but I leave you to guess at them). This year has been particularly challenging for me because I elected to do the "floor work" with the troupe's sword dance. This involves basically gliding down to the floor, onto my knees, doing a couple of balancing moves, then literally lying down on my stomach (in basically what would be termed in yoga the Sphinx position), and rolling all the way over, a full body roll with the sword still balanced on my head the whole time. There's no gimmick to keeping the sword on--it sure ain't glued there; it's all done with balance, and is so taxing physically that I am often out of breath after doing this dance. The problem is getting my costume arranged so I can roll over gracefully--the belt to the costume is a major arrangement of tassels and it is extremely bulky when it gets underneath me. Mr. Strega said I looked a little awkward today for a moment or two because I was trying to maneuver around my tassel belt. Ah, well, c'est la vie. My adventures in dance are sure a far cry from making annotated bibliographies in grad school all those many years ago (actually, I liked making the annotated bibliography).

I am happy to say that I am making more leeeway into a difficult part of The Strega's Story and, like putting patches together for a quilt, I feel that it is all starting to come together. Isabel Allende once said that a book is never finished; the writer just gives up....I think that's sort of how it feels for me.

I wanted to take a moment and express my gratitude to my faithful readers--I like to do this periodically because I am very grateful that people come here to read these words, as non-earth-shattering as my daily life really is. It keeps me coming back here to record my thoughts, knowing that perhaps what I say might be of interest to someone else. So thank you!