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Let me tell you a story…Last week, I watched a beautiful documentary about professional ballet dancers who had children while in the midst of their performance careers (link at the end of this post). It was heart wrenching and inspiring. I sobbed as I mourned the loss of what could have been and dreamed of the ways I hope to forge ahead in both the worlds of mothering and moving. I also remembered what it was like when I danced on stage while my baby danced inside my body connected by the need to move. Anyhow, after watching the short film, I ordered two books: Balancing Acts by Lucy Gray and A Ballerina’s Mindset by Megan Fairchild. It is not entirely relevant, but I also ordered a new kitchen aid whisk attachment. Someday when there are a ton of you reading, I will update these to be affiliate links but not today..Anyway, on Tuesday, my husband found an empty package on our porch, assuming the contents to have been stolen. Very angry, I looked at my order history and saw that in fact, all three objects were supposedly delivered two days prior, on Sunday. I was fuming (I know, a very privileged thing to be upset about). Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon as the studio gremlin and I are walking down the street to one of our babysitting gigs and I spot a book on the ground-Sure enough, there lies “A Ballerina’s Mindset”, obviously my copy so I picked it up, grateful. Fast forward again, today, Friday, I decide I am going to walk down around the area where I found the first book and as I go, sure enough, I spot an amazon box next to a local building that doesn’t quite look like its where it belongs. Inside it? “Balancing Acts”. As I walked home, I paged through the images of the three mother ballerinas featured in Gray’s book and I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself. This book had no value to the person who took it off my porch almost a week ago but the contents of this book mean so much to me. More than that person will ever know. Now, I didn’t write this post to point fingers or complain or even to mention my good fortune in finding these lost items (still on the lookout for the whisk attachment). But, I wrote it because of what this experience made me consider. It helped me to yet again remember what matters the most to me. This book (Balancing Acts) as an object is not a prized possession of mine but sitting here, writing this post and looking at the cover, I am overwhelmingly reminded how much moving and mothering are my prizes and my joy. My hope is that today, you might be able to recognize what those things are for you.
Watch the documentary here: https://youtu.be/10hzVMbRYVc?si=Egym7UYs_l4Bcjan Comments are closed.
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