Mom 2

This is the last day of the year and it has been great. I got my MFA, I turned 40, I have lots of great friends near and far who love me. However, I want to be aware of what and who is not here. A friend just lost her dad. It is truly a terrible time to lose someone but life makes no guarantees for perpetual happiness or appropriate times for bad things to happen. This video shows where my mom spent her last moments alive. The site of her accident 12 years ago is a very powerful place for me as it is just down the road from where she worked at a juvenile prison as a teacher. The lone car making a path that she did not have the good fortune to make. Live life to its fullest and don’t wait to act. Don’t sit in the fear of what if; making things happen is much easier.

Dad's House

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time playing on this street. This was my grandmother's house and now my dad's house. It looks different from when I was a kid, there seems to be less activity and everything is much shorter.

Nissa

This is my sister dancing. We were at my grandmother's house, you know how grandmothers are.

Grandma

was (home) for Christmas and before I left I had a dance with my grandmother. We call her Mu which is a form of mother without the other. I got the music from David Morneau as I have many times this week.

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The Store

This is my home town of Raeford, NC. When I was in high school I would hang out with some of my friends behind this store and talk about stuff. There was absolutely nothing to do so we just hung out.

Happy Kwanzaa

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. Kate and I dance by the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel and again I swiped music from David Morneau.

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Love You

It is Christmas Eve so I am spreading the love.

Going YouTubing

After many months I have decided to put all (most) of my dance a day videos on YouTube. I resisted for many reasons but mostly because blip.tv was (is) so very awesome but the tube has more traffic. Soooooo starting tomorrow,this blog will have videos from the tube and danceaday.com will host videos from blip. Happy Holidays Everyone.

Most Wonderful Time

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Hanging out by the National Christmas tree with Kate and Johnny Mathis comes on over the loud speakers. I loved listening to Mathis as a kid. In fact I got into chorus by practicing singing with his records.

Red Christmas Tree

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Kate and I walked into this building and saw this very nice red Christmas tree. As soon as we saw it, we knew there had to be a dance in front of it. Eventually we got kicked out. Sheesh, where is the holiday spirit. I went into the archives of David Morneau's 60x365 site and swiped some music since he is being all Christmaasy.

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National Christmas Tree

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This week David Morneau and I pull out the old Christmas home movies for your viewing pleasure. This movie is when Kate and I did our first danceaday together back in 2007. Kate thought the bows on tree were hideous. I was impressed by the LED lights which were cool to the touch and energy efficient. David was manning the projector but broke the tape because he heard that a new version of Atari Combat was coming out for Christmas and rushed to the 52 inch plasma television to see it.

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Washington's House

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Psycho, noooooo it is the house the Washinton built, George that is.

Shed

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I found a shed out back and I did a dance. The Mount Vernon Shed dance.

Mount Vernon Farm

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Orr, Holliday and I took a look Washington's Farm. Orr spotted some slave quarters and I did a dance there. Washington was the only slave holding founding father to free his slaves when he died.