Category: Dancing Blogs

  • No 18 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 5, 2017 Be The Change You Want To See In The World I’m a high maintenance person. I’m either very happy, very sad, very peaceful, very upset, very productive or very blah! There is not too much grey area for me. As a…

  • No 17 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 28, 2017 Gaining Wisdom “Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” – Aeschylus 525-456 BC Well, that’s not too encouraging is it? But it is so true The best champion dancers have worked and trained for many years to get to the top. As with…

  • No 16 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 21, 2017 The Hero’s Shield In Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Siegfried was the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde, who were both the Volsung twins of Wotan, who was the king of the Gods. Siegfried was the hero born to save the world. He was…

  • No 15 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 14, 2017 Things to Ponder! These two questions were sent to me by Mr. Jacques DeBeve. The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip. Here are the two sets of questions. First Set: 1. Name the…

  • No 14 Can Dancing Protect Your Brain From Aging?

    No 14 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 7, 2017 Can Dancing Protect Your Brain From Aging? Our Arthur Murray Santa Monica student, Diana Ungerleider, brought in an article that said there may be something unique about learning a social dance. The demands dancing places on the mind and body could…

  • No 13 “Be a Part of the Winning Team!” 3-31-17

    No 13 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 31, 2017 “Be a Part of the Winning Team!” “What do the right people want more than almost anything else? They want to be part of a winning team. They want to contribute to producing visible, tangible results. They want to feel the…

  • No 12 “What is Happiness?” 3-24-17

    No 12 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 24, 2017 “What is Happiness?” “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”– William H. Sheldon (1898 – 1977)American psychologist and numismatist “Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that…

  • No 11 “That is why I succeed” 3-17-17

    No 11 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 17, 2017 “That is why I succeed” “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in…

  • No 9 “What to give up for Lent?” 3-3-17

    No 9 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 3, 2017 “What to give up for Lent” It’s the 3rd day of Lent. Ash Wednesday has passed and until this past Wednesday, I did now know what I was going to give up. Late night eating (like that’s going to happen). Getting…

  • No 7 “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” 2-17-17

    No 7 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 17, 2017 “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey (1895 – 1983) American professional boxer Sometimes in my life, I just can’t seem to get up, but I do. After dancing 41+ years, having run 19 marathons, having…