Welcome back to Tranquility DeJure, nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility.

This is episode 612, and I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, bringing you tranquility through this podcast since 2005.

So I wanted to share a Life Lately episode with a peek into what I'm reading, what I'm working on,

delighting and struggling with, and really kind of a bit about what's on the horizon.

So first of all, I want to say a big thank you to everyone for your kindness around my 50th

birthday, which feels like forever ago.

I guess at this point it's about five or six weeks ago.

And yet I'm still celebrating, so I'm still meeting up with friends and having the

teas and whatnot in honor of the 50th. And it just feels like I could keep going with this. It's so

lovely. And, you know, the whole experience, too, of it coinciding with ballet performance, the whole festival that

happened in Miami. And then everything leading up to that, I almost feel like since I've been

back that I've had just a bit of, I won't say a letdown by any means, but just I spent

months in preparation, like, manstop preparation, you guys.

I mean, at one point I was doing two private sessions for point a week, sometimes two private point sessions and private with my main teacher, Sean Kelly.

And it was just like, oh my goodness, like it was so much. And then,

of course, taking regular group classes too. And anytime I wasn't practicing, I was feeling

guilty or not practicing. So it's just funny, right? I mean, the effort that goes into it. And just

yesterday, I posted on Instagram, and I'll put a link to it in

the show notes, but a reel that shows the progress. And I don't even show you what happened in

December because we did work on it in person in December also. But for this two minute and 45 second piece, the amount of work and time

that went into it. I just can't even imagine it's hard to fathom really the amount of hours.

But in this reel, which is 60 seconds, it shows you February, April, practices, and then June performance. So you get to see progress.

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