Grace makes you feel good

With Grace And Its Rewards. You will feel graceful. I went to the gyn doctor for a checkup since I was not feeling well. She told me I was aging gracefully. This was nice to hear and I thought that I had never heard this type of pronouncement before. She said that also, my insides were aging gracefully. Well, this is a marvelous compliment. I went to a new heart doctor. Her name is Dr. Tina Slottow and she pronounced me perfect. She is perfect herself, since she is kind, caring, easy to talk to, does not rush you, she listens and most of all, she is compassionate to seniors. Also, my internist doctor is Dr. Ulrich Prinz and he, indeed is a prince because he too, is perfect and he is also a geriatric doctor who specializes in seniors. He is compassionate, caring, kind and he also listens to everyone, whether they are seniors or not. These two medical persons are the best of the doctors I go to for medical needs. He helps me when I ask questions and he answers with a good heart and a sweet soul. As always, I am going to relate this to ballroom dancing. Ballroom dancing helps us to age gracefully, not only in our bodies but in our minds. Everyone knows that you have to think in your mind before your feet can move gracefully. When I first learned to ballroom dance, I always looked down at my feet and when the teacher said you cannot do that, I could not believe that you could dance and not look to see if your feet were moving the right way. Quickly, you realize that you need not look at your feet to make them move. At first, you cannot believe that your feet can do that. Learning to dance is something that stays with you like when you were a kid and learned to ride a bike. Many years, even twenty years later you still remember how to bike ride. It is the same with dancing. Due to an auto accident several years ago, my husband and I have not danced socially for several years. He keeps saying he forgot lots of things. I say that once we get back there to the studio in the next few weeks, it will all come back to us. Maybe, we will not be perfect, but then we never were, but we will still remember plenty of steps and patterns. Investing in dance lessons is a good venture. This is my opinion and I am sure most dancers feel this way. If you go to the movies to see a new one, you come out and feel good or bad depending on what you saw. You talk about it for a while and then it is gone. When you put money into learning something new like dancing, you increase your learning each week and it stays with you and then it all comes together. One day, you get up there and dance and you are amazed. You remembered your steps. You did it and most of all you are proud. Accomplishing something like ballroom dancing could be one of your most rewarding moments. Take a picture and look at yourself in action. You will be delighted to see that at whatever age you're at now, you are achieving something and realizing a dream you may have had for a long time. You may have thought you would never get around to doing it and now you have. Shakespeare said in one of his many sonnets, “I am a rich man with a key to the treasure in the chest.” When we find a competent studio, then we have the key to success and the key to being excellent ballroom dancers. Our life will become a treasure and we will be rich. About thirty years ago, a friend of my son’s came to visit. He saw my fifty-eight dancing trophies lined up on custom-made shelves I had built in my kitchen to display them. He asked, “whose trophies are these?” My son said my Mom’s. He looked at me, then 48 years old, and he asked “hers???” Now that same young man is about forty-eight. I imagine he can do lots of things that he thought were impossible for me at that age. Age is only a number. At the age of forty something, a lady took up violin playing. She said on her hundredth birthday celebration, “See I've been playing the violin for sixty years now. It is a shame I did not take it up at age twenty when I was younger.” We can try to do things and have new adventures no matter how old we are. We have more strength and stamina than we think we have or that we give ourselves credit for. Try something new, do it in moderation and see how you progress. You will be amazed at your ability to accomplish it and you will be thrilled at your achievements. Grace is yours. William Hazlitt said “Grace is the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul." Grace is what my two doctors possess and I and we are fortunate to know them. elita sohmer clayman \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ . She