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Dona Hare Price's avatar

Grant, your last two posts are absolutely beautiful and really speak to the place we are in individually and collectively. Life is precious and it’s time to step into the place your soul is calling you, seems you have done it.

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Cassandra J Hamilton's avatar

I’m so glad you wrote about this, Grant. Marta Becket greatly influenced me in the early 2000’s while I was facing vision loss and early neurological (and unrelated to the eye disease) yet-to-be diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis. I saw a video on Marta wherein she discussed her despair at no longer being able to perform multiple pirouettes (like 18, I think). She thought this signaled her dancing career was done—until she realized people kept coming to Amagarosa to see her perform. They didn’t care about that one physical feat; they wanted to see what Marta could with what ability she had left. Seeing her share this, her awe and tears, snapped me out of my despair over my eroding health. I shook off my self-pity and turned to creating with the wonder of what I could do with what little I have left. Through over a dozen bouts of paralysis, this has made all the difference in my life.

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