---Karen, do you think I'll ever get straightened out?" she asked.

"If you're not too enamored of your difficulties," Karen said, her hand on the doorknob. "If you're not too firmly set on remodeling 'nearer to your heart's desire.' We may think this is a "sorry scheme of things' but we have to learn that our own judgment is neither completely valid nor the polestar for charting our voyage. Too often we operate on the premise that what we think just has to be the norm for all things. Really, you'd find it most comforting to admit that you aren't running the universe----that you can't be responsible for everything, that there are lots of things you can and must relinquish into other hands----" aSince I've started on this journey -since I've stopped try to remodel myself "nearer my hearts desire".(or anyone else's desire for that matter}; since I've stopped trying to be the perfect christian woman. I'm starting to uncover and recover the more perfect me. Amazing!
I started folk dancing again. More specifically English country dancing and contra dancing.
I grew up folk dancing, and for some reason I put it away in the treasure chest in my heart.
All of a sudden that chest has been thrown open and things that I used to love are spilling out for me to take a look and and to try on again. Dancing is one of those things. Oh my how much fun-I'd forgotten. I'd also forgotten the joy, the crazy "dancer community", and the lovely music.

When I danced these lovely partner dances in my youth I always had to dance the man's part, ('cause of course there were never enough boys, and the cute"little" girls got to dance with them) but now as an adult I actually get to be the girl - and i get to be twirled and spinned at the man's whim, just like those "little popular girls". So much fun!
Who knew that my 50's would become my renaissance?