Mountain Dance

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

 -William Butler Yeats

JBL

Sometimes the mundane repetitive events of life make me yearn for an escape. It was a windy day today and I had moments of wishing that I could be carried away on the wind and softly dropped on a mountain top. The weariness that has settled in my bones is beginning to take a toll on my thoughts. It has been a while since I have danced on the mountains like a flame. Even in my thoughts. 

    I listened to the sweet laughter of my young students this morning and was reminded of the research that found that children laugh an average of 100 times a day! And adults? Five or six times a day. And that is on a good day!  So what is about children that they can find so much that is funny in one day? And why are grown-ups so serious? Do we need to get up on that mountain more often? Why can't we allow ourselves more joyful moments?

Come fairies! I need a dance on that mountain top!