My favorite Disney movie is Cinderella, but my favorite fairy tale is "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." I love the enchanted forest and the row of silky dance slippers worn to ribbons. I love how the girls (though cursed in some versions) are able to dance all night. Think of the poor cobbler!
So I'm thinking of worn-out dance slippers as a metaphor for living life fully, passionately, and bravely...though apparently limitations and beyond, and for seizing joy. The worn-out slippers also represent putting caution aside and not saving anything for some other dance in the future.
I'm trying to use what I have when I have it, using my favorites without hesitation. I tend to save my favorites, thinking I'll need them more later or thinking I don't have the right to use them yet. But those princesses didn't worry about saving their slippers for the next night. I try to read what I want to read when I want to read it, to wear my favorite clothes or accessories without hesitation, and simply to indulge in what is already mine.
Once at an antique store, I saw a gorgeous pair of lilac ballet slippers. I'll hold that image in my mind.
Inspiring lists, sparkling reads, and quirky musings from a writer~reader~wife~mama~advocate who wants to seek, create, and savor life's sweet bits.
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