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| Maybe it's a tango thing - this desire to dance that tanda where you and your partner lose track of who's leading, who's following.. where you start, where she ends.. that feeling of perfect harmony, precise & delicate balance - consciousness without feeling self-conscious.
To say that it's better than sex somehow only seems to cheapen. Like false modesty or worse, false disinterest - we can try to play it down, so that we'll blend in with the "normal people." But who's kidding who?
Instead we'll drive for hours, fly across countries, spend our last dollars; yet never admit to non-dancer friends & family that this addiction is more narcotic than any chemical substance - that even when we go cold turkey for 40 days & 40 nights.. the feeling doesn't go away, and we lay awake at night, thinking about that dance.. you know, the one when..
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Whenever, I find myself impatient / wanting to "speed up the process," I try to remind myself of this passage from Nikos Kazantzakis in Zorba
the Greek .. thought this was worth sharing again -
"I remembered one morning when I
discovered a cocoon in a bark of a tree, just as a butterfly was
making a hole in its case and preparing to come out. I waited
awhile, but it was too long appearing and I was impatient. I bent
over it and breathed on it to warm it. I warmed it as quickly as I
could and the miracle began to happen before my eyes, faster than
life.
The case opened, the butterfly started
slowly crawling out and I shall never forget my horror when I saw
how its wings were folded back and crumpled; the wretched butterfly
tried with its whole trembling body to unfold them. Bending over it
I tried to help it with my breath. In vain.
It needed to be hatched out patiently
and the unfolding of its wings should be a gradual process in the
sun. Now it was too late. My breath had forced the butterfly to
appear, all crumpled, before its time. It struggled desperately and,
a few seconds later, died in the palm of my hand.
The little body is, I do believe, the
greatest weight I have on my conscience, for I realize today that it
is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not
hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey
the eternal rhythm." | | |
| Recently, Clay Nelson, organizer of the Portland Tango festivals, put out a survey.
Here is the full discussion on this findings and observations -
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| It's been a while since I've posted, but I recently came across an incredible story of social entrepreneurship on CNN. The mission of Tom's Shoes has been to give away one pair of shoes for each pair purchased. Since 2006 this company has given away over 10,000 pairs of shoe, and last year they planned to give away 200,000 pairs! | | |
| Have you heard their new Mar Duce album? Good stuff - some of it is quickly becoming the next alternative tango dance classics -   | | |
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