Tag: J. Clair

  • “The Eyes and Ears of Life”

    “The Eyes and Ears of Life”

    Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury                                       Arthur Murray Santa Monica On March 27th I awoke from a dream at 3 AM. As I was awakening, I remembered it all and I became so alert that I started writing it all down at 3:30 AM! The theme of the dream was seeing and hearing. I’ll…

  • “The Greatness Within. Pulling it Out”

    “The Greatness Within. Pulling it Out”

    Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury                                       Arthur Murray Santa Monica When I am teaching dancing, my only goal is to take the dancer in front of me and find the greatness that is already inside of them and pull it out and show it them. I never think that I am truly teaching anything…

  • No 40 9-28-18 “Dancing Will Change Your Life”

    Our Mission Statement at Arthur Murray Santa Monica is: Dancing Will Change Your Life!” David Woodbury  (1956) Arthur Murray Dance Professional In 1975, a friend invited me to a dance party at the Arthur Murray in Nashville, Tennessee. I loved it and became a ballroom dance student. Disco was the rage then and my teacher…

  • No 33 8-17-18 “Good friendships are fragile things”

    “Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.” – Randolph S. Bourne (1886 – 1918) American Writer After 42 years with Arthur Murray Dance Centers, I now have a lifetime of my dancing friends, and they are truly my family. These are precious and fragile relationships. All…

  • No 31 8-2-18 “Perseverance is a great element of success”

    “Perseverance is a great element of Success” Henry Wadsworth Longefellow

  • No 28 7-13-18 “The Greatest Test of Courage”

    “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”             – R.G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899) American lawyer Do you like the rough times in life? I don’t. I can barely handle the great times in life with all their abundance and joy, much less loss, illness,…

  • No 51 12-22-17 “I Love the Holidays”

    No 51 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, December 22, 2017 I Love the Holidays! We put up our Christmas tree Thanksgiving Day. Sent out our cards the next day. We knew that we would dance almost every day from then to Christmas Eve. Guess what? The days have been glorious. We…

  • 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 30. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 24, 2015 Impossibilities Vanish! Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.– Jean de la Fontaine Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.– Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist At Unique Dance-O-Rama, I was…

  • Choose the Bolder Path! Blog 6-5-15

    No 23. Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 5, 2015 Choose the Bolder Path! When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder.– W.J. Slim My life has never been the easy life. I’ve always lived with some…