She Will Dance

Full Moon Party, Thailand
Originally uploaded by Brendan H

The past three months I have been living the tragic life of a a Broadway musical lead character. She scrubs the floors, she smiles and bows at her evil step sisters, she works day and night for a fat mean uncle who tries to seduce her, and all that because she always wanted to be a dancer. However, her path is littered with obstacles, reasons why she cannot dance, things she must overcome and disappointments she must learn to accept gracefully.

Maybe a slight exaggeration you say? Hardly. Until now there have been many obstacles cutting short my dancing career.

Sometimes there is no dancing because there is no electricity. Sometimes there is no dancing because there are no people. Sometimes there is no dancing because her beloved husband is nursing a peg leg.
Sometimes there is no dancing because there are curfews, strikes or blackouts.
Sometimes there is no dancing because she showed up too early or too late or not at all.
Sometimes there is no dancing because she is too tired to dance.
Other times there is a little bit of dancing but she still goes home wanting to dance more.

But as the 11th hour nears, she will dance like she has never danced before. She will be danced into the ground by many a pill popping nineteen year old, she will be tired and she will be cursing the dancing, but there will be sand, people, electricity and there will be music. All night. Every night.

Full Moon Party August 2008. Here we come.