a) I need space for another goal but, fundamentally, it was about embodiment, along with relating with my physical self as an instrument, and I am now living this purpose.

When I set this goal for myself, I was denying myself “space” for these things; no more. These are no longer “shoulds” for me, but “musts”, “of courses”, priorities above all others, if not all else. I am back in a regular Authentic Movement class, and I am realizing that this practice may be calling me as a vocation – hence the “must” – I choose to do it, but I am now experiencing it as akin to the choice to breathe and to live. And I have reclaimed dance and movement and music and singing as things I will do for myself, including by myself, regularly, whenever I damn well please or need it. A class will be nice one of these days, but in the meantime, I have my house and my room and my turntable and the music in my head, I can dance sitting on my ass regardless of what anyone thinks – you get the gist.

:) No one can take me away from me!