April 16, 2006
Contra Saturday Evening
I was at the Northboro Contra Dance last night. Great dance. Wonderful caller. Not too crowded. Just right. I still demonstrate all the agility of a pyramid, but I do improve with each appearance.
I’m thinking about what I can do to accelerate my improvement, since, as the name implies, I am rather impatient. So, I was thinking about what I would do, if say, I wanted to improve the pace of a home improvement project? Well, the answer came to me very naturally: Purchase a new tool!
| The tool of the dance is what? Shoes? I guess. I do own a pair of shoes I use for dancing. What differentiates these from other shoes is just that I don’t wear these anywhere but the dance floor. Not much of a distinction. Real dance shoes have smooth leather soles so you can slide and turn without twisting an aging joint.
Anyway, this week we had a large number of kids (did I say kids?) from Clark University. I swear they were 15 years old. |
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Youth is SO wasted on the young.
Later, cha, cha, cha…
Filed by misterimpatient at 10:32 pm under Patter
“Youth is SO wasted on the young.”
Too true. That said money is wasted on the old. If A could be exchanged for B I would judge it as a fair swap.
I wish.
Thinking about it some more, this whole concept of waste is interesting. What does it mean that “youth is wasted on the young”? I think it’s just a comment on a young person’s lack of appreciation for the benefits of being young. I have much more to write on the topic of wasted “resources”. That will be the subject of another post, maybe later today.
Actually bing technically middle aged I would stand to lose on both counts. So I take it all back :-p