updated July 17, 2024
Blogging
When I started this blog in 2015, I knew little about blogging. I thought you just sit down at a computer and start writing. So I did.
Once I realized how much was involved, I did what I do when I need to know something. I searched for information and learned. And I am still learning.
Blogging is much like practicing medicine-there is always something new and different to learn. It is an enjoyable challenge and I have tried to improve this blog with each post I write.
The most important thing I have learned is a blog needs two things- a writer and a reader. Today I want to thank you, my readers, for making this possible.
Whether you have been with me from day 1, or this is your first time reading, I appreciate your interest and hope you come away blog informed and inspired .
Waltzing
As a thank you “gift”, I am sharing my favorite flashmob video. It is a “flashwaltz” which happened, where else? in a hospital (after all, this is a health blog).
Music students played The Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the Hadassah Hospital.
This is a Viennese waltz, with a meter of 6/8 timing rather than the 3/4 timing of a slow waltz; being so fast, it is more difficult and fewer people dance it.
Besides blogging, I ballroom dance, doing foxtrot, rumba, chacha, and waltz well. But I had not learned the Viennese Waltz. and didn’t think I could do it.
But my dance instructor prompted me to try, and with his patient instruction, I learned to dance Viennese waltz and love it.Just like I learned to blog.
There is something almost magical about twirling around the floor to beautiful classical music and now it’s one of my favorite dances.
The Waltz of the Flowers by the Boston Pops is available at Amazon (this blog earns a small commission if you purchase from this link)
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Dancing and music are so joyful for me. We do a virtual reality workout that combines both and it never fails to improve my mood and the way I feel. I love that you learned to waltz. What an accomplishment!!
Learning the ends and outs of blogging has indeed been a dance for me. Sometimes that dance looks more like a temper tantrum when technology gives me fits. But learning to manipulate or not be manipulated by WordPress has been good for my brain.
Nice to meet you through the Tell Us About link up.
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Nice to meet you Leslie. I haven’t delved into virtual reality but if I could dance with it I would love to try it. I feel the same about WordPress, especially when I log in and something has changed. My husband also writes a blog on WordPress so we help each other learn the changes. He’s retired from IT so it’s easier for him, but occasionally I scoop him with something new.
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I loved this, Aletha! I agree there is a dance between bloggers and readers. Some of my readers bow out on a regular basis which makes me sad. But, I have to tell you, this is my favorite piece of music of all time. It never fails to bring me to tears, and a flash mob just made it all the more better. I always wanted to take ballroom dancing lessons, but my husband never did. He’s having both hips replaced this year (the first next week) due to AVN. I’m hoping to convince him it’s not too late! Thank you so much for sharing your blogging journey at Tell Us About!
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Thanks Marsha, I agree about the music, it is timeless. I know people who had had hip replacements who continue ballroom dancing, so it is possible. I pray he does well, you too.
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Hi Aletha, many thanks for the charming video of the flash mob, it was beautiful to listen to the music and quite soothing! I appreciate the thought that blogging and dancing have things in common and agree blogging needs both a writer and a reader! I’m not much a dancer but when our daughter was getting married, my husband and I took dancing lessons from friends and surprisingly he loved it because of the mathematical nature of it, seeing it as a puzzle to be solved! We haven’t continued but I look back on that time and smile. Thanks for joining with us for the Tell Us About prompt, it’s great to have you with us.
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Thanks for reading Debbie, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I hear your story often, dance lessons for a wedding, even my son and his wife did. Your husband is right, dancing is mathematical with the different rhythm counts. And I agree it involves solving a puzzle. I always marvel at how two people can coordinate their movements into something so graceful. I do hope you and he will consider resuming your dancing journey. Dancing is believed to be one of the best exercises to maintain both physical and mental health, and may even prevent or delay dementia. I should write a blog post about that, lol.
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It’s wonderful that you dance…I used to be quite a good little dancer when I was a kid, I even won some random competitions! But I met my husband at 16 and because he wasn’t much of a dancer, I stopped. A few years after we married, I managed to drag him to ballroom classes and he quite enjoyed the first couple of lessons but once we got into the likes of Salsa, he hated it because he couldn’t quite get the hang of the hip sway lol! So we ended up stopping. Such a shame really.
Hugs
Suzy x
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Hi Suzy, thanks for reading. That is too bad about salsa, I love salsa but my husband struggles to keep up since it’s so fast, so we don’t do it much. But he likes west coast swing, that might work for your guy. Good luck.
Aletha
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I became familiar with the Viennese Walz thanks to the TV show Strictly Come Dancing, which spawned the US version Dancing with the Stars. Thanks for joining the Tell Us About Blogging challenge!
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Gail, knowing something about dancing myself, I can appreciate professional dancers so much more, because I understand how much work goes into dancing well, although they make it look easy. I used to like DWTS but less so now. There’s too much talking and drama, and the women’s costumes just get skimpier every season. But maybe I should give it another try.
Aletha
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