Dear People,
Here we are again, where we meet every one hundred days and I try to encourage/exhort you to roller skate! It's the first day of Fall, too, and isn't that an auspicious day to begin your own daily roller skating thing?
I know, I know, you have your reasons, but let's begin by throwing out all the big excuses! Just for one day, one hour, one minute, you are not afraid of falling, you are not afraid of looking silly, and you are not 'too busy.' Oh, and you don't have any place to skate, well, that's not valid today either. You can use anything flat and nearby: a garage, a street, a tennis court, a basketball court, a living room. I, as I have most days this last year, will be skating in my house- is it big enough? No, not really, but any skating is better than no skating.
Now that the place and the objections are overcome, what do we do next? How about watching this short clip? This kind of small group thing is often called shuffle skating, and it is kind of the pinnacle of what I aspire to- early on when I got my adult pair of roller skates (16 years ago or so now) we had a rink in town that was open every weekend for three-quarters of the year, and one day a group of these kind of skaters came in and left in their wake total awe and admiration. They were 5 people skating as one- impossibly, magically- to this great song, your song for today, which, with any luck at all, you will listen to while you skate around your small or large, in or out door, glassy smooth or asphalted bumpy, space!
PS Here's a sweet new spot to skate- it just opened! Fresh pavement! And, if you feel nostalgic, try this little memory, which includes a clip from Charlie's Angels with a roller skating chase scene.
