Today is my second silksiversary! Two years ago today, I took my first aerial silks class with Mama Silk, where I met my friend Sila. Mama Silk is on vacation, so Sila and took a photo with just the two of us. In class tonight, I did my first ever unassisted aerial dance wraps, which are a type of footlock, and for some reason they have been hard for me to do. But I did them, twice, and then flipped right into a crossback straddle. Because I do that now, with regularity. After class, I celebrated my silksiversary by running a mile, because I am way more badass now than I was two years ago. While I was running, I meditated on this quote by Neil Armstrong:
"I believe every human being has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
But it turns out Neil Armstrong didn't actually say that, and that quote also ends with "...to waste any of mine running around doing exercises." Hello, people. The whole point of running around doing exercises is so we can maximize our number of heartbeats. Duh.
Because I am grateful for each of my heartbeats along The Silk Road, I offer you these quotes instead:
"You get what you're given. It's all how you use it." ~ Pink
"Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like shit and you think you’re terrible and you’ll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens." ~ Rosanne Cash
"It's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul...We're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream." ~ Neil Armstrong
Here's to another year of flying upstream with all my Silkies!
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