Watching the World Baseball Classic final from Petco Park. My beautiful ballpark 🙂 Two weeks from tonight DS2 and I will be there!
I was sharing with SP tonight how much I love baseball. One of those things that makes my soul dance, ya know?
Driving home tonight, I am not sure why, but I got to musing about the things which touch my soul. I think it was Mimi’s post about the jasmine. I love how she writes. Totally from her heart. It’s a long story, but I spent a lot of my adult life entirely unable to detect those things. I was sooo unaware and in a fog. But since 1999 things changed. The beauty is that now not only can I fully feel soul dances as they happen, but I can also reflect on my childhood and remember the things which touched me then. Baseball is one of those things. I really really cannot wait to go to the ballpark. I am probably one of a few moms at the little league games who loves to be there. The whole scene at a Major League game though. Oh man. The gorgeous grass, the sounds of batting practice, the scoreboard hijinks, the music, the smells. Oh man, the smells!! Popcorn and cotton candy and hot dogs and nachos and beer.
From the time I was 9 until I left for high school when I was 15, baseball was a radio game for me. I listenend to the Dodger broadcasts at night in my living room. Vin Scully is a voice of my childhood. “Well hi everybody and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.” That’s how he opens every broadcast 🙂 As an only child I guess it was a comfortable routine with people – or voices – I could always count on. And I loved it!
Now I have somehow reached a place in my life where I can buy season tickets and go with a son who is equally passionate about the game. Talking about soul dancing. That’s one in double time!
I’ll be writing about other things which make my soul dance. You know what I mean, right? Where you are just giddy inside? Cannot help but grin? Can’t keep back the happy tears? So what makes your soul dance?
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Trees & Flowers & Birds! 
The one sitting next to me right now makes my soul dance. And finally… You know already how I’d been unaware and so out of touch with myself in the past. I feel whole and free and me. It’s something I as well have felt since I was a young girl. I’m very grateful to have that feeling back. And yes, my soul is dancing because of it. Thanks sweetie.
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Music makes my soul dance. Singing cleanses me and clears my mind like nothing else.
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What a great story Bina…. I know that getting those season tickets made your soul dance! I heard it!
For me there are so many things…
certain music moves my soul and body, especially under those full moons. Working in my garden and seeing those efforts pay off with flowers and yummy fruits and vegetables. Swimming in the ocean, period. Walking on the beach with wind in my hair, twirling, twirling. Laughter deep from the belly with a best friend, the kind where you are wheezing and it almost hurts you are both laughing so damn hard… All those things and more make my soul dance.
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