Thoughts from Mama T...

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. --- Mother Teresa

Lindy Hoppers

Lindy Hop is adicting... the smiling faces in this picture are all living on a natural high: the swing out! I would pretty much agree that one of the only ways to my heart is through a solid lindy swing out. This is a handful of my friends that I meet up with 2-3 times a week to boogie down with. Most of us have "grown up together" meaning that we all started dancing around the same time. We've taken classes together and progressed in our dancing together. I couldn't ask for more amazing people and I've been so blessed to get to know all of them over the past year. Any of you who decide to come visit this great city... bring your dancing shoes!





























http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ts2zUQuSbo .... watch Ajay and I compete in the Harvest Moon Lindy Hop competition!!!

Snow! Maybe...

So we are gearing up for snow and looking towards the sky for that first flake of fantastic hope. Many college students in the greater Seattle area are joing in together at this moment in prayer for this tiny little glimmer of hope that that class tomorrow in which the paper is due in, or the quiz that they've been dreading for ever and yet not studying for will end up disapearing in a flurry of white fluff they call "snow". Yet there is something that is sitting in the gut of all of us who have lived here long enough... its never what you want, its always what you expect... rain. We are all hopeful, and in a few bright and shining moments in November those hopes were realized with a couple half days and one full day off of school, but in reality we all know that what is most practiced here in the beautiful northwest is wet, very wet.

Now if you've talked to me about my experiences since I moved up here in 2003, you know that I continually perpetuate the great lie "it rains all the time in Seattle, it is so wet and dreary and no one in their right mind should move here" when in reality I am saying it all in sarcasim in order to keep the population boom to a minimum as people slowly realize the beauty and wonder of this place. This winter though has been leaning especially towards the steriotype and I'm begining to believe my sarcastic alter-ego. Where has the strikingly beautiful, clear with a finish taste of crisp days of Seattle gone? We used to have this mountain thingy called Mount Rainier, but as of late all we have is billowing clouds that decide to periodically dump mass amounts of rain along with gusts of wind onto our drowning city.

I'm not lying this time... its wet. And as I lounge infront of my wall heater trying to warm my toes awaiting the first sign of snow I begin to hear the Californian calling from the back of my mind... "You fruitcake! Why the heck did you leave 75 on Christmas day to come back to the snowy slopes of Seattle!?" Why?... maybe I'll answer that question for all of you californians tomorrow as I sit enjoying my day off... Heck! Who needs snow, freezing rain will do!