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Day 18 Reimagining the To Do List as Dance Card

Just Start is the first step forward in writing to resolve the past or dreaming ahead into the future.

“I’m dancing as fast as I can,” is a well-worn phrase. It’s easily claimed by people overloaded at work and scampering madly to keep up with all the tasks heaped onto the ‘dance’ card of their desks.

Left to dance another day, well worn shoes on giveway table in apt bldg
Shoes left on a communal giveway table hope to dance yet another day

It’s a bold statement, too. It reflects a person’s emotional state too, as they high step it through life’s daily emotional dances.

The phrase was most powerfully claimed by Barbara Gordon in the book she penned and the subsequent movie made from it: I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can where she is portrayed by Jill Clayburgh. The perfect life is soon revealed as frayed and flawed.

There are times where I’m called to some fancy footwork in my day, or my life. Happy to report that today was fulfilling without frenzy. Spent most of it out in public but in ‘engagement lite’ mode.

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