So You Think You Can Dance?

I watch this show with envy.

Co ordination and grace have never been my physical strong points.

My mom used to call me clod because I ran into walls and hot table edges as I went by. That was such an encouraging name...(dryly, she said)

I took dance my senior year of hs and in college bit frankly I sucked. I'd go left as everyone went right. I'd do a pirouette and get dizzy. Everyone would be facing from except that backward girl, me. (Kinda allows you into my inner personality).

Watching these kids from all over the country who can stick to the rhythm makes me wish I wasn't so white, ya know? White, awkward, and clumsy is no way to go through life. Wink.

Thank goodness I knew I was graceful and happily so in water.

I float like a cork.

My inverted backstroke was the best my college swim/water safety instructor teacher said. Not that most folks even know what the inverted back stroke is....(kinda like the breast stroke on your back, kinda).

I miss swimming alone down at La Jolla Shores beach after the tourists left in late September. I miss the pool we had in our backyard for several years(back in Irvine-decades ago). I miss Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. I miss the swim club my family belonged to when we lived in MI.

I miss the reclining deep bathtub I had in our second house. Amazing what a difference an excellent bathtub makes in your life. I spent many hours reading in that tub. Lost in other worlds not my own, escaping the monotony of being a stay at home mom.

Sigh. In summer I wish I was a fish. Never too hot and pretty darn quiet underwater! Grin. What do you wish??