I've danced at South Bay Boogie since the first dances last summer.
Willow and I met at dance camp in June 2001. In a beautiful meadow, we agreed to do what we could to bring a free style boogie to our "neighborhood". And we did. . . My impression all along has been WOW people are dancing in the Silicon Valley. My current impression is that it is getting better and better. And it is so exciting building community through the dance- seeing all the familiar and new faces, arms, legs, bodies.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Down the hill from Universal Studios. Yes, I was TOTALLY a Valley girl. My parents still live in the house where I grew up in North Hollywood. My older daughter, Ami and I moved to San Francisco in 1990. We relocated to the Peninsula in 1998.
I have a vivid memory in high school of wanting to be a Marine Biologist.
Ghost stories happen all the time to me. I'm not sure they are particularly funny.
I studied Ballet from age 3 to 12. I LOVED to dance. In 1971, when I was 12, I was told that there was no place for me to go in ballet, as I didn't have a ballerina's body. So, I stopped dancing, until discovering, years later other disciplines that were more open to my beautifully-full body.
I love the earth, the ocean, my children, other people's children, Damon, my family, dolphins, whales, travelling, my girlfriends, storytelling, creating dolls, writing, gardening.
I am constantly changing and unchanged. Over the last month, I have been thinking about all the things that have shaped my life. Through all the dark times and the light times, I am grateful for that which is my life and all those events that have led up to this moment. I'm working with a poem right now written by David Whyte entitled "The Sun". It is an amazing piece. The stanzas that are currently "working me" are as follows: David Whyte writes:
"Sometimes reading Kavanagh I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering."
I know in the text of the heart, the flower is our death and the first opening of the new life we have yet to imagine, but Kavenagh's line reminds me how I want to know that sun, and how I want to flower and how I want to claim my happiness and how I want to walk through life amazed and inarticulate with thanks. . . . .I want to know what I am and what I am involved with by loving this world as I do."
I have two web pages:
The vision of Doll Magic is to create a space wherein everyone can experience the magic of dolls - through their creation, their playfulness and their stories.
Conservation and our marine life.