A delightful weekend

[rsc]

Of course, any weekend during which the Red Sox sweep the Yankees is delightful by definition.

But this was also the weekend of NEFFA, which is also always a source of delight. (And I really need to have a word with the people who do scheduling for MLB; it seems an unnecessarily common occurrence that the Sox play the Yankees on NEFFA weekend.) But there was much dancing, plus much serving and bantering at the LCFD food booth, run as always by the apparently (and heroically) indefatigable Chris and Sam. Preliminary estimates suggest that we made a reasonable profit, although not as much as last year.

To anybody who reads this journal who also volunteered at the booth: A thousand thanks!

And it may be just as well that we didn't have get to watch Friday's and Saturday's games, which probably would have been as emotionally draining as our actual activities were physically so.

Comments

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I looked for you a few times as my departure neared, but didn't manage to find you. Well, I kept getting distracted everywhere I walked or looked. There were really an awful lot of people there from significant times of my past, and an awful lot of things I just wanted to do and watch. I'm sorry for not finding you.

Staying with you and John was absolutely way way up there among the best parts of the weekend. It made everything so extraordinarily easy and convenient and comfortable, you can't imagine. Plus I thought Thursday's dinner was an incredibly pleasant way to begin the weekend -- when within three hours of arriving someplace you've already had enough pleasure to make the trip well worth the while you know things are off to a great start.

So again: Sorry for missing you pretty much completely on Sunday. I really hadn't thought I'd be so very involved in other things so as to have what amounted to no hangout time. You know, I wound up singing in a few different workshops -- and by that I mean actually leading songs -- so that was interesting.

I'm going to be writing up a journal entry about some thoughts I had about the gender-free contra -- which I watched for about 30 minutes or so. It was great, of course, but what I've been pondering is whether I saw anything different at that session than at the other contra sessions I saw. Gender-free stuff -- the freedom to dance as a same sex couple, even the freedom for men to wear dresses -- seems to have permeated the entire New England dance community. The mixed couples were as natural and comfortable at the gender free dance as the same-sex couples were at the other sessions.

Oh this is different than the contra community I knew. Different in a way that is better -- inconceivably better. As with so many other things I was hit with last weekend, this is making me think about an awful lot.

Anyway, I'll be working something up about this, if I can ever cohere my thoughts.

But thanks again a million times.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

You are, of course, most welcome. And I too am sorry we missed each other on Sunday.

Gender-free stuff -- the freedom to dance as a same sex couple, even the freedom for men to wear dresses -- seems to have permeated the entire New England dance community.

To a considerable extent, this is true, although it's not universal; there are still plenty of men at the straight dances who will sit out rather than dance with another man. I suspect that the gender-free sessions are still useful in that they may give folks -- especially men -- who are interested in, but slightly hesitant about, trying the "other" role a degree of license that they may still not feel that they have under other circumstances (if only for fear of confusing other dancers).

Then there's the whole men-who-force-you-to-twirl phenomenon that I've written about in previous years.