LEAPFROG Remember playing when you were little? All you wanted was time, and a few square feet of ground where you and your best friend could do somersaults, cartwheels, and play leapfrog. The point was to GO! To catapult your body through space and feel free, for a moment, from the pull of Earth, and the need to behave. By now, your Leapfrog Days may be only a memory. A thousand threads of responsibility for a home, job, family, friends, and other people's expectations may tie you down. Most of us know what that's like. Yet few would choose to shed our vital connections. Maddening though they may sometimes be, they keep us grounded and engaged in a life that is larger than ourselves. But within every woman lives a child who wants to come out and play. Let her! She keeps us spontaneous, energized, and open to wonder and joy. So play, goddess, play! It does not have to be leapfrog. (I couldn't do that now if my life depended on it.) But every once in a while, you must do something to put a grin on your face and a skip in your step. Time to get your groove back! Do we have to grow up yet? Of course. But not totally. We are MEANT to have fun! Besides. It's great to watch the expression on children's faces when grown-ups play. They love to learn that you are never too old to be young. Story on back |