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Dancing my way through life ...

9/21/2016

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In 2002, Miki Durnell Dauwe coined the phrase, "When you stumble, make it part of the dance."  She uses this idiom to, "put a positive spin on my misfortune, which has caused me many struggles"

Miki suffers from Arnold Chiari Malformation, a 
neurological defect of the Cerebellum which affects the part of the brain that controls balance.  "I have stumbled in my walk for years," said Miki.

​Years ago, I heard about a pianist who lost track of what he was playing during a public performance.  He just kept playing until he found his way again.  The audience loved his "
improvisation!"

The Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who lectured at New College, Oxford,  for sixty years had a habit of switching words.  For instance, he would say, "Go shake a tower"  for, "Go take a shower."

Apparently, the Reverend's tongue could not keep up with his thoughts.  He is famously known for his Spoonerisms, which are a genuine delight to those who are acquainted with his verbal mishaps.  
I've watched a poem veer off on some wild tangent mid process, as if it had some purpose all its own.  My Piratess poem did this, and it actually ended up a far better poem once I went with it, so to speak.

Miki's succinct phrase lends a healthy and rewarding approach to many of our maladies and misfortunes in life.  Since we all stumble upon occasion, perhaps we just need to dust off our own Fred Astair.




     






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    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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