dance
not just for performance but for practice. Performance is easy to spot. You know when someone is faking it, and you know when someone is sincere. When you truly know something by heart, you don’t need an audience.
Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang : The National Colonial Amnesia
When you let yourself be moved by music, you lay down tracks in your nervous system, pathways for joy to traverse when you hear that song again. I know that when I choose to dance today, I am building muscle memories of joy, giving my future self more songs to be moved by.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
dance is joy
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