Oh yes! I loved this video, and that women(who were a bit older) were holding the edge of their dresses, showing their lovely thighs and twirling around! 💃👏🏼
Yes, let's keep dancing! In Austria, where I lived 40-50 years ago, the New Years Eve tradition is to dance the swirling, dizzying Viennese Waltz at midnight--to the tune of the long version of Johan Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz (15 minutes for one dance!) Wishing you and everyone good health, joy and fulfillment in 2024! <3
We love and appreciate you dear Celia! You are definitely a bright spot in my life. Thank you for all that you teach and share. You give us knowledge, strength, inspiration and courage! God bless you! Cynthia, Boulder, CO.
Your writing has been precious — tears of the heart. I’m so glad a wind of happiness encircled you with the changing year Celia. This idea of dancing seems spot on — I’ve heard dance was the earliest form of worship and surely it escalates the frequency of joy, raising consciousness and fellowship — mirror neurons shimmering and star bursting — this idea of dancing beyond the shades and specters seems to be a PEARL from the Girl - 🌟CECILIA 🌟
Celia, sometimes I am at my wit's end, but reading your posts gives me hope and the feeling that there is someone who understands what I am going through. God bless you for your humble honesty.
Other New Year’s Eve customs celebrated to bring good luck and fortune:
Romanians tuck a few bills under an area rug.
The Spanish eat 12 grapes – one for each stroke of midnight. This sounds yummy, especially when paired with some cheese and wine!
In Italy, at the stroke of midnight, they throw something out the window. This not only symbolizes letting go of the past but makes room for good fortune to enter.
At the stroke of midnight, the people of Argentina take one step forward with their right foot.
The making of noise at midnight on NYE dispels evil spirits. SO MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!
And since your post was started with Russians dancing, and I was watching another video blogger you'd posted in your Advent events Meeting The New Year of 2024 with My Family in Ufa, Russia. LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq9bcHKQdxc
The upcoming year of 2024 has been declared the Year of the Family in our country. And a truly big family is definitely a family where children grow up, where parents are given attention, and treated with warm-heartedness and care, and where everyone loves and respects each other.
omg Celia, I just love you...all the intensity, despair, joy and love. Yes dancing has kept me sane ALL my long life. I studied and danced flamenco for over 40 years never professionally just joyfully...It has been very hard for me here in wokeness but as you say movement and dance and sweating is a way to lift ones spirits...this new year I plan to find new avenues, new venues, new inspirations to dance with myself and others ....as Bowie so wisely sang 'LETS DANCE' ...here it is in Calif. just about to be new years and I send you a big hug all the way to Granada my dancing friend...
Thank you, Celia! I never did before see the song and dance video, just watched it 5 or so times as it filled me with a quiet beautiful joy! Only then did the song translation show up and the joy magnified as I danced with them in my heart.
Yes! Yea! Yes! I LOVE the dance video from the wonderful French man! He is a genius! And I have listened to every version of this song over and over! I even subscribed to his YT! And i have you, dear Celia, to thank for introducing it to me. It has such a charm and grace about it! Happy New Year! Keep writing! Keep dancing! We will dance our way back to ‘normalcy’ ( whatever that is or was). We must!
I borrowed something, a message that I think I read in one of your Posts last year. I sent that paraphrased message out to all my kids in my New Year's email to them. Oddly, disappointingly, yet not surprisingly, I haven't heard a peep from them in reply. The estrangement ice apparently remains unbroken. Upon reading your New Years post, Celia, a sense of hope washed over me as you described the power of tripping the light fantastic with others. And, in fact you doubled my delight because I realized immediately you answered the question in that (paraphrased) message...
"When was the last time you felt Amazed, Blessed, overcome with Joy and Gratitude, and you never wanted to leave?"
I hope I haven't butchered that borrowed message. I'm a terrible dancer but I'm going to keep dancing in 2024 even if its just in my heart.
I am so sorry your kids didn't show you the love you wanted and which you deserve. It makes me so upset what they have done to everybody. But I am so so happy you found such inspiration in my words and thank you for sharing this. I wish you joy and dancing in 2024! I'm no great dancer myself, but I'm planning to take lessons, it's about the joy, and I think nobody is really a bad dancer, everybody just dances differently. That's what I think. Wishing you a Happy New year Unejected Resister.
Celia, thank you again. I am honored you would take a moment to reply to my comment. Your heartfelt response and encouragement is so appreciated.
My first 2024 New Years draft email to my adult kids (all in their 40's now) was titled "Sleepwalking into Total Enslavement". I never hit send on that one due to my intuition telling me to hold off. I really did take your "When was...and you never wanted to leave?" message to heart when I first read it some months ago. When I took the challenge posed by that question I had to go back quite a number of years to truthfully answer it. I am still hoping one or more of those to whom I relayed the challenge to in my 2024 New Year email will take me up on it and offer their response. I also think it would really be interesting, and likely inspiring, to hear what an audience like yours on Substack would respond with if given the direct challenge - "When was the last time you felt Amazed, Blessed, filled with Joy and
Thank you for the Joy in my heart this morning,seeing/feeling/knowing the meaning of the French people's song even though I don't speak the language. I've sent it to my close friends (Alain, originally from Paris, and his wife) who also love to dance, and invited them to come over today and dance in my living room.
I am a dancer who has not danced in the past several years, and have known it was a key to reclaiming my soul, but these videos have really made their point in my heart. I am in a new, small town location since 2020, and don't have the dance communities or the easy access to Argentine Tango, Ecstatic dance, etc, that I enjoyed so easily in the big city I lived in for 40 years. Now I'm determined to reclaim this joyous dance experience happen even if it has to be moving the furniture in the living room to make room for people who only stand and sway!
Thank you for this, and for your soul-baring courage in the face of challenges most cannot imagine. Deep bows to you, and prayers for your happiness and abundance of love and resources in the new year.
Happy New Year everybody, who else is hungover? Thank you for the supportive comments, I feel very fortunate to be connected to all of you.
Quick question:
Does this come up? Viewable?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Wzz2QcVPpMw?si=Q9rR_Kz1LtOpMGhB
Thank you, Celia and best wishes to you and yours in the upcoming year.
Your substack will no doubt continue to be a go-to source for information that includes balance and humanness. I hope it grows exponentially.
Yes! The above-linked video did come up for me. Looks like it was a happy party.
Wanted to mention how much I loved the music and bouncy, exuberant singer-dancer in your other linked video.
Oh yes! I loved this video, and that women(who were a bit older) were holding the edge of their dresses, showing their lovely thighs and twirling around! 💃👏🏼
I know!! haha. Love them!
Thank you Celia and a happy new year to you as well. Thank you for your interesting perspectives, very enjoyable.
Yes
Yes. :-)
Yes, let's keep dancing! In Austria, where I lived 40-50 years ago, the New Years Eve tradition is to dance the swirling, dizzying Viennese Waltz at midnight--to the tune of the long version of Johan Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz (15 minutes for one dance!) Wishing you and everyone good health, joy and fulfillment in 2024! <3
We love and appreciate you dear Celia! You are definitely a bright spot in my life. Thank you for all that you teach and share. You give us knowledge, strength, inspiration and courage! God bless you! Cynthia, Boulder, CO.
Your writing has been precious — tears of the heart. I’m so glad a wind of happiness encircled you with the changing year Celia. This idea of dancing seems spot on — I’ve heard dance was the earliest form of worship and surely it escalates the frequency of joy, raising consciousness and fellowship — mirror neurons shimmering and star bursting — this idea of dancing beyond the shades and specters seems to be a PEARL from the Girl - 🌟CECILIA 🌟
Lovely!
Celia, sometimes I am at my wit's end, but reading your posts gives me hope and the feeling that there is someone who understands what I am going through. God bless you for your humble honesty.
Yes to 12 grapes! 12 is the sacred number... after all.
Yes lets dance Let's dance
Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Let's sway
Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight
Let's dance Let's dance Let's dance, dance, dance
I like the custom of the grapes and had just read about it on another blog here
https://m2labs.wordpress.com/2023/12/29/ringing-in-2024-rock-vixen-witch-style/
Other New Year’s Eve customs celebrated to bring good luck and fortune:
Romanians tuck a few bills under an area rug.
The Spanish eat 12 grapes – one for each stroke of midnight. This sounds yummy, especially when paired with some cheese and wine!
In Italy, at the stroke of midnight, they throw something out the window. This not only symbolizes letting go of the past but makes room for good fortune to enter.
At the stroke of midnight, the people of Argentina take one step forward with their right foot.
The making of noise at midnight on NYE dispels evil spirits. SO MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!
And since your post was started with Russians dancing, and I was watching another video blogger you'd posted in your Advent events Meeting The New Year of 2024 with My Family in Ufa, Russia. LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq9bcHKQdxc
When Putin was giving his annual New Years Speech, I searched for an English translation very short speech. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73200
New Year Address to the Nation
December 31, 2023 23:55 The Kremlin, Moscow
The upcoming year of 2024 has been declared the Year of the Family in our country. And a truly big family is definitely a family where children grow up, where parents are given attention, and treated with warm-heartedness and care, and where everyone loves and respects each other.
omg Celia, I just love you...all the intensity, despair, joy and love. Yes dancing has kept me sane ALL my long life. I studied and danced flamenco for over 40 years never professionally just joyfully...It has been very hard for me here in wokeness but as you say movement and dance and sweating is a way to lift ones spirits...this new year I plan to find new avenues, new venues, new inspirations to dance with myself and others ....as Bowie so wisely sang 'LETS DANCE' ...here it is in Calif. just about to be new years and I send you a big hug all the way to Granada my dancing friend...
Thank you, Celia! I never did before see the song and dance video, just watched it 5 or so times as it filled me with a quiet beautiful joy! Only then did the song translation show up and the joy magnified as I danced with them in my heart.
Yes! Yea! Yes! I LOVE the dance video from the wonderful French man! He is a genius! And I have listened to every version of this song over and over! I even subscribed to his YT! And i have you, dear Celia, to thank for introducing it to me. It has such a charm and grace about it! Happy New Year! Keep writing! Keep dancing! We will dance our way back to ‘normalcy’ ( whatever that is or was). We must!
Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year!
https://youtu.be/xRUE0aAI5o8?si=JOeey4v_0c1bGydd
I borrowed something, a message that I think I read in one of your Posts last year. I sent that paraphrased message out to all my kids in my New Year's email to them. Oddly, disappointingly, yet not surprisingly, I haven't heard a peep from them in reply. The estrangement ice apparently remains unbroken. Upon reading your New Years post, Celia, a sense of hope washed over me as you described the power of tripping the light fantastic with others. And, in fact you doubled my delight because I realized immediately you answered the question in that (paraphrased) message...
"When was the last time you felt Amazed, Blessed, overcome with Joy and Gratitude, and you never wanted to leave?"
I hope I haven't butchered that borrowed message. I'm a terrible dancer but I'm going to keep dancing in 2024 even if its just in my heart.
Thank you Celia.
I am so sorry your kids didn't show you the love you wanted and which you deserve. It makes me so upset what they have done to everybody. But I am so so happy you found such inspiration in my words and thank you for sharing this. I wish you joy and dancing in 2024! I'm no great dancer myself, but I'm planning to take lessons, it's about the joy, and I think nobody is really a bad dancer, everybody just dances differently. That's what I think. Wishing you a Happy New year Unejected Resister.
Celia, thank you again. I am honored you would take a moment to reply to my comment. Your heartfelt response and encouragement is so appreciated.
My first 2024 New Years draft email to my adult kids (all in their 40's now) was titled "Sleepwalking into Total Enslavement". I never hit send on that one due to my intuition telling me to hold off. I really did take your "When was...and you never wanted to leave?" message to heart when I first read it some months ago. When I took the challenge posed by that question I had to go back quite a number of years to truthfully answer it. I am still hoping one or more of those to whom I relayed the challenge to in my 2024 New Year email will take me up on it and offer their response. I also think it would really be interesting, and likely inspiring, to hear what an audience like yours on Substack would respond with if given the direct challenge - "When was the last time you felt Amazed, Blessed, filled with Joy and
Gratitude and you never wanted to leave?!"
Keep on Dancing!😉🕺🏻💃🤪
Thank you for the Joy in my heart this morning,seeing/feeling/knowing the meaning of the French people's song even though I don't speak the language. I've sent it to my close friends (Alain, originally from Paris, and his wife) who also love to dance, and invited them to come over today and dance in my living room.
I am a dancer who has not danced in the past several years, and have known it was a key to reclaiming my soul, but these videos have really made their point in my heart. I am in a new, small town location since 2020, and don't have the dance communities or the easy access to Argentine Tango, Ecstatic dance, etc, that I enjoyed so easily in the big city I lived in for 40 years. Now I'm determined to reclaim this joyous dance experience happen even if it has to be moving the furniture in the living room to make room for people who only stand and sway!
Thank you for this, and for your soul-baring courage in the face of challenges most cannot imagine. Deep bows to you, and prayers for your happiness and abundance of love and resources in the new year.