Inspirational

From Christy Hardin Smith, this post on maintaining.

I need to. Dance exercises do it for me -- modern dance, which from my teachers took a lot from yoga and quigong and tai chi and stressed one thing over and over again: "listen to your body and don't try to do anything that makes it cry."

Particularly with my history of joint problems, particularly knees, I should never have stopped. The only time in my life that I can remember my knees not hurting is when I was studying modern dance fairly intensively -- I mean, four classes a week. That's also the first time I had any muscle tone in my belly.

So, if Christy can do it, I can do it. All I have to do is remind myself that I once looked like this: