[TANGO-L] DENVER

[David <dsaj @MINDSPRING.COM>]

I wish to express my joyful appreciation to Tom Stermitz, Tango Colorado and all the Denver tangueros/as who made the weekend so enjoyable and enchanting.  This is my third time to Denver, two Memorial and one Labor Day.  This was, by far, my most enjoyable dance experience there and probably anywhere. Although I do have to say that Buenos Aires is still the best.

Thank you Robert, Dan and Tom for mesmerizing and energizing DJing.  Robert, Sunday in Cheeseman Park was incredible.  I don't believe anyone wanted to leave the park.  The music, the full moon, the tangueras.  YES!!  Thank you all.

I did come to fully realize how truly an "intimate" experience tango can be.  Tis an intimate experience that is uncomplicated by dating, sex or any other of our normal ways of being intimate.  Two people open their hearts and energies to each other freely for each two and one half to three minute tango.  When its over you can depart from one another with an peace and astonishment that two people can share such indept intimacies and feelings without expecting anything else in return.  You can experience what true relating is and can be.  To me it is experiencing the mystical, the spiritual, the GODness in all of us.  I was discussing how the tango experience can be with an acquaintance that was not a tango dancer.  I stated how you can have many incredibly sweet experiences and every so often a mind blowing one.  She looked at me and said, "It changes your life, dosen't it".  I had not thought about tango in quite that way before.  Tango does change your life if you embrace it with an open heart.  Althought many tango lyrics are about the pains in life, I and others I have conversed with, know you can experience the sweetness of life through tango.  And that experience can be carried forward to all parts of your life.  I know that I am a more open, intimate, less inhibited person in part because of my discovery and embrace of tango.

So a special thanks to Rosalia, Elaine, Carne, Melody, Jill, Alejandra, Robin, Jeannie, Carole, Janis and others for sharing so freely your hearts and souls with me in the dance of tango; for making my weekend so special.  A little part of your energies will always be with me and make me smile when I feel you.

A special thanks to Susana Miller whom I owe so much of my love and feel of tango.

Hooked and tango,
Many blessings,
Happy hearts and feet,

David