My Instead: I danced
liked I never have before to music I never used to like.
It was Wednesday night
and it’s “girls’ night out” in The Grove in St. Louis. I was “leaving on a jet plane”
for Florida the next day, so I had a long day of work before I hightailed on
out of the Midwest. The music on the patio started at 7:00 on that beautiful
July evening, but I didn’t get there until almost 8:30.
I made my entrance out
on patio, bought my obligatory Diet Coke and found my way to my table of friends…this
group of gals is so wonderful and fun! It was break-time for the band so no one
was dancing, yet. I chatted with most of the women there until the music started
up again. The group was Dawn Weber’s Soul Faction. They play kind of a funky
jazz that usually doesn’t move me to go dance, just listen. I am more of a Lady
Gaga and Katy Perry groupie…that is, if it’s possible to be a groupie at 62!
Several of the girls got
out there to shake it. As the night went on, more of us joined in. Yes, I was
one of them! I just said “I can do this”. Oftentimes, I would just close my
eyes and envision no one watching, not even me! I felt so free. Who cares! We
were all being free and silly. It was such a joy to be in the moment. Our comfort
zones were on hiatus and there was no turning back. We didn’t sit down again
until the “music died” and the band went home.
The high octane energy
embraced us all and we felt it! We were watching one another, but we felt as if
“nobody was watching”. I never did this kind of thing when I was a young
teenage girl…but I’m doing it now!
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