Category: NIA dance practice

  • 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…

  • A while ago, I had a lovely lunch with a friend. I brought her a very small vase with a couple of dahlia blooms from my garden. Last week at our Nia dance class, she returned the vase with these pretty pink blooms, geraniums, I think. I put the vase in the cup holder in…

  • Lately I haven’t wanted to go to dance class. It’s weird. For the last five years, I’ve had this great love affair with Nia, a fusion of dance, martial arts and healing arts. I’ve written it about many times. I believe there is even some bragging in my posts about always wanting to go. The…