4th of July

Wow, we hooped today in the 4th of July Parade. It was great fun! I had originally wanted to hoop in the parade, and then had trouble rounding people up to join me, so decided to pass on it. Then, I ran into a friend in the Post Office parking lot and gave a mini hoop lesson right there, and she was in, so my energy was renewed.

We ended up joining forces with the "Independant Living" float, and were there twirling tail. My two friends who haven't hooped much were amazing at just trying new things in front of people and going for it! They both agreed that they were much better hoopers by the end of the parade just because they'd gotten all that practice in. I, too, felt like my hooping and walking skills improved quite a bit - I never really practice going anywhere with my hoop, but that was fun.

We spontaneously offered our hoops along the way to parade goers, usually kids, who looked like they wanted to hoop. It was fun to have that kind of audience participation. Some of them were really good! I invited people left and right to join our hoop group, Saturdays at 11am at Bishops Beach, so maybe I will have rounded up a few new hoopers. I think I've piqued the interested of many in hooping again - I heard one women say incredulously, "I didn't know adults could hula hoop." When I offer my first hooping classes in the fall, I think I might have a great pool of interested people.

It got me dreaming of creating something for the edinburgh fringe festival next year, too. Not sure what, but something involving hooping, that's for sure.

Thank you for my friends who take a leap of faith to join me in my sometimes wild pursuits and adventures. Thank you for this amazing community that I live in that embraces me, and the new ideas I have. Thank you for this path that we walk that provides us with every thing that we need to learn and do what we need to do. Thank you for endless possibility, and new adventures at every turn. Thank you for guiding me along the way, and gifting me with ways to bring more joy into peoples lives.