Steady Souls

The dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham is 90 years old. Still going. Makes me feel like a spring chicken.

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.” - M. Cunningham

And isn't it true of anything that we truly value? The precious moments of our lives? You can't hang them on a wall, or store them away in a drawer. A faded photograph really doesn't do the trick.

A life fully-lived to the absolute max is not for "unsteady souls."