Dancing in the Rain!

My philosophy for today.
While making breakfast for the kids this morning, I was completely jamming out to the "Despicable Me" sound track. Dancing is a long time passion of mine. My daughter was completely excited and said to me, "Mom, you should totally be a dancer!"
I laughed and said, "Well, I used to be a dancer." (can you hear the sigh? And in my head I am thinking, sure can you just see this old and falling apart fat lady prancing around on the stage! The audience would blow chunks in the hair of the person in front of them!)
 She persisted, "No mom! Instead of becoming a substitute teacher, you should be a dancer. You totally could do it!"
You know, my 11 year old girl got me remembering how I have always viewed dancing. It doesn't matter your shape, your age, your size, or anything. Dancing just takes soul.
Dance is not meant to be sensual as our current society has lied to us all about. Dance has been used as a form of worship, a form of community pulling together such as tribal rituals performed around a fire for this or that purpose, a way to show faith. It has been used as a sign of grieving, celebration, induction or transition to the next phase of life. It is an art form, no, a life-form that pulls from the very soul to draw you into the artists heart, daring you to taste the visions of their minds.
Even at my smallest size while dancing for the University of Maine, dancing wasn't a way to allure those around me in a sexual way. It was an emotional and soulful connection between myself and the movement, the rhythms inside that are created from experience, trials, triumphs, joys and sorrows, all woven into movements connecting body to spirit. The beautiful thing is that it can be solo or joined in by others. Once dancer can become 2, can become a group, combining visions and emotions into a labyrinth of feeling.
People say, "I can't dance!"  This is not true. Anyone can dance. You just have to let go of the fear that holds us. We are taught to worry about what others might think. Let go of that fear and you will dance.
My goal today? Take my music to the park, turn it up, and just dance in the rain.