Week 21 5-20-22 “My Morning and Evening” Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica “Remember, it will get better.” – David Earl Woodbury (1956 – ) Dance Professional Recently I was on a wonderful Zoom meeting with the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce. It was a New Member Orientation. We had...
Week 17 4-22-22 “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive” Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury Arthur Murray Santa Monica “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.” – Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Scottish Novelist When covid arrived and...
Week 12 3-18-22 “…gain strength, courage, and confidence…” Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) the longest serving First Lady of the United States How many times have...
Week 11 3-11-22 “Through Service We Grow” Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury I cannot remember where this quote came to me, but I cannot get this out of my mind. My father lived a life of service. My ballroom dance teachers, who are older than I am (I’m almost 66), live...
Week 10 3-4-22 “Love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe” Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury “We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant...
Week 08 2-17-22 ” When one door of happiness closes, another opens” Changing Lives Through Dancing “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller (1880 – 1968) American Writer...
Week 07 2-11-22 “A hero is a man who does what he can.” Changing Lives Through Dancing David Woodbury – Arthur Murray Santa Monica, CA “A hero is a man who does what he can.” – Romain Rolland (1866 – 1944) French dramatist My dad, Troy D. Woodbury, Sr. was my hero. When Daddy...
Week 06 2-4-22 “The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Changing Lives Through Dancing David Woodbury – Arthur Murray Santa Monica, CA “The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,...
Week 04 1-21-22 “What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.” Changing Lives Through Dancing David Woodbury – Arthur Murray Santa Monica, CA “What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann von Goethe (1749 – 1832) German Poet and...
Week 03 1-14-22 “Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.” Changing Lives Through Dancing David Woodbury – Arthur Murray Santa Monica, CA “Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.” – Euripides (480 BC – 406 BC) Greek Playwright Yesterday I was in a Zoom meeting for...
