Rest

My schedule for the past few weeks has been quite full. It’s a blessing. To work as a tap dancer/storyteller is something that not many people are allowed to do. It’s a gift. It’s also work. This is what the past few weeks have looked like:

10 days - Israel 7 days - Tokyo 7 days - Vancouver 14 days - Boise, Idaho (I made this video while here) 7 days - Rochester 7 days - Prepare for Tap Dance Freedom Intensive 6 days - Host Tap Dance Freedom Intensive 1 day - Consult and Perform on Film Shoot 5 days - prepare for trip to Barcelona 1 day - REST 14 days - Barcelona

I want to talk about that one day of rest and what it meant to me. Everything. I very rarely get a day to only rest. I still had an online coaching session with a tap dance student in Estonia, and ran some errands. But once the afternoon came about I was free to spend time with a friend. Food was involved, including gelato, and good, slow paced, conversation. We were both so tired that we found a nice shady spot in a park, laid down to cloud watch, and both unintentionally dozed off.

We woke up and both laughed at our unacknowledged need for sleep. What a beautiful thing it was to have the time and space to let the body do what it needed to recover from the stressors of life.

If there is anything I wish for others it is this: Rest.