Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

Salvia elegans — aka pineapple sage — spends all spring and summer growing and getting robust. Everything else in the garden is blooming like crazy but this sage waits until late September (in my garden, anyway) to start blooming.

It’s looking pretty amazing just now. The hummingbirds take sips daily.

I’m also in the autumn portion of my life and trying to be like salvia elegans. This week I’m at a dance retreat at a Pleasant Hill retreat center called Bloom. We’re dancing Nia, talking and laughing and playing with Nia concepts and in general thinking about how the practice of this form can infuse our lives with health and joy.

A concept we covered at retreat: the bonded nature of mobility and stability, how the one relies on the other.

You can read more about that: https://mainstaymedical.com/relationship-between-joint-mobility-and-stability/

We start and end each day with an hour-long dance. I didn’t know when I was in my 20s that I would be doing this when I hit my seventh decade, but here we are.