Up-Date

It's been a while since I've written, but writing lately has seemed too hard. I am busy and haven't been able to find the time to allow the words to float to my mind and organize themselves. But all is well. We have started Summer Intensive at IBT and it has been a good week. I am sore all over and tired, but I am grateful. We went apricot picking yesterday after we got home. I sat in the top branches of a large apricot tree and picked for an hour. When gusts of wind would blow my branch would sway slightly and there was something I liked about that. Yesterday Ray started his choreography, he had Eden and I perform for everyone to show how he wants it. He likes the way we move with contemporary movement and how we make the choreography more than just vocabulary and steps but how we make it ours and real. Organic is what he calls our movement. I babysat Nina tonight. I love her. She had me hold her more tonight and I tickled her and tossed her in the air and we went on a walk and she sat on my lap and I read her books and I held her on my hip as I vacuumed and she put her little had on the handle to help me. I brushed her curly hair out and hoped that one day one of my little girls has curly hair. I got a letter from Tyson. It was so fun to hear from him. I love him.  He is such a good man. I am tired, and I feel like crying because of the gratitude that is making my heart feel too big and my throat tighten.