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The Double Meaning behind the blog title 'Dream Follower:'
First, for 14 years I was a ballroom & social dance instructor, and have studied both leading and following. I feel that learning to follow is full of nuance and is often misunderstood. I made it one of my personal goals to become a really excellent follow on the dance floor, and will probably talk a lot about the art of following - both in and out of the context of dance.

Second, I am a huge fan of author Michael Ende, probably best known for The Neverending Story. The book is incredible, and the first film captured some of the essence. (Please don't watch the other two films...I urge you to read the book though!) Anyway, at least twice in my life I have been caught in a storm of my own indecision, and my inner Moon Princess yelled to my inner Bastian...'Why don't you do what you dream?' I tear up even now as I write this little blurb. The tension between being practical, keeping my feet on the ground and my head out of the clouds (at the risk of compromising my inner vibrancy, true self, and who knows what else)...and reaching for my true dreams (at the risk of losing everything) is still a very real struggle. In fact, one of those struggles lead to my 14 years of teaching dance, so we can see which voice won the battle that fateful day when I was staring at the want-ad...

And so I strive to be two kinds of Dream Followers in my life. One has to do with connecting with others, and the other has to do with connecting with my inner Moon Princess and the world of possibility that opens when I do...

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Exciting News

Dear Readers,

I am pleased to announce the birth of my new blog, Dance Tracker for which I have written my first entry.

I plan to drive traffic from here to there, but not the other way around, so those of you who have gotten kind of an inside view of my life since I began writing here on Dream Follower will get to see a whole new side of me, but I intend to still use this blog as more of a personal journal or outlet for writing in general.

Those of you following my story will need to be comforted (perhaps not by lies?) in knowing I have not abandoned the thread, just been distracted by life. Samantha and Luke will continue their adventure, I promise.

Thank you for your patience, your readership, and your indulgence.  I am evolving in new and unpredictable ways as we go, so again...thank you.

-Jessica (Dreamer, Dancer, Thinker, and now also, Writer)

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 28, 2014 at 12:56 PM

    What? First one, and now two bloggy blogs!!?? What's gotten into you?
    What have we created?!?!?!
    Heading over now.
    (Oh, and check the link - it didn't work for me.)

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    1. DreamFollowerJuly 28, 2014 at 1:01 PM

      Merp...here is the link for now, will edit later: https://dancetracker.wordpress.com/
      yes, you have created a monster :)

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  2. ElGuapoJuly 28, 2014 at 1:30 PM

    Congratulations!
    Nothing can stop you. NOTHING!!!

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