Category: Dancing

  • Believe in Someone! 5-1-15

    No 18. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 1, 2015 Believe in Someone! If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. — David Viscott Sometimes, we have to be the courage that helps someone else begin. This is how it is in dancing. First, we ask…

  • Impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. 4-23-15

    No 17. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 24, 2015 At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. — Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) American Actor It seems that every day, I am amazed by what’s happening around me. We’re owners of an Arthur Murray Dance Center in Santa Monica. We are…

  • Turn Your Dreams Into Reality 4-17-15

    No 16. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 17, 2015 Turn Your Dancing Dreams into Reality When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. — Albert Einstein (1879-1955)…

  • The Legend of the Noble Bamboo 4-10-15

    No 15. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 10, 2015 The Legend of the Noble Bamboo The Thais have a wonderful legend about the bamboo plant. In the beginning, the Bamboo was the most beautiful plant of all. But in the corners of the garden, there were dry beds. A spring…

  • Life is Miracle and Magic 4-3-15

    No 14. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 3, 2015 Life is Miracle and Magic We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. — E. Merrill Root…

  • TIME IS SHORT! 3-27-15 David Earl Woodbury

    No 13. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 27, 2015 Time is Short! You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not…

  • Eat Off Your Best Dishes 3-20-15

    No 12. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 20, 2015 David Woodbury Eat off your Best Dishes!   Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real…

  • Humus, Planting in Good Soil 3-13-15

    No 11. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, March 13, 2015 David Woodbury Humus, Planting in Good Soil Anyone with a green thumb will tell you that humus is essential in their gardens. Humus is the richest part of the soil, composed of the decay of plant and animal matter. After the…

  • Never Give Up 2-27-15

    No 9. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 27, 2015 David Woodbury Never Give Up! Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.– Marilyn vos Savant  1946-NA There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We…

  • Our Dancing Goals 2-20-15

    No 8. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, February 20, 2015 David Woodbury Our Dancing Goals You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then…