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The details of daily life are asking me to dance to the tune of rock and roll.

The stack of laundry waves at me, while emails, comments and messages shout out my name.

My fridge is an empty dance floor.

Four visitors from the States arrive, as I look around for my dance shoes.

Work taps its foot, and I pretend to be a wallflower while I drop a sugar cube in my cup of tea, and listen to the music.

I am dancing, but not as fast as I can. Living in the moment means, waltzing in to the beat of the tango.

Can you twirl, with a cup of tea in hand?

photo: Paris breakfast style. Thanks Marie-Noelle for the great teacup link!

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  1. Britt-Arnhild

    Sure you can twirl with a cup of tea in your hand 🙂 You can twirl a Corey dance……
    Good luck with your everyday homefun.

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  2. ~jolenemarie

    To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying
    Dance, Corey, dance….tea cup and all…

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  3. Pauline Clarke

    Oh splendid idea – to dance through the day, your own steps to whatever beat is playing. Grabbing my teacup and joining you!

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  4. Shannon

    My laundry has been waving to me and sending out S.O.S. signals to rescue them from the dirty pile.
    Have fun settling back into homelife and showing your visitors the best of France (your home).

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  5. sheila

    Your enthusiasm for life is contagious. Your guests will ‘catch’ it.
    Sometimes the slow dances are the most fun…
    ;o)

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  6. darla

    Ah yes, the quotidian tasks. Always better with a pretty tea cup to keep you company.
    Dance on!
    Darla

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  7. Linda

    I could write my name in the dust that calls to me from my furniture. I’m with you-dance to your own tune. The dust will always be there. Weeds too.

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  8. constance

    Tea time Tango? That sounds like a marvelous move to me!

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  9. Pat Spiller

    Dance. Dance. Wherever you may be .. .. Twirl. Swirl. Enjoy. As you bring enjoyment across the cybe-miles.

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  10. cruststation

    Dancing is what brought you to France, and here it comes round again 🙂

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  11. Marie-Noëlle

    I certainly can’t twirl with a cup of tea in hand… I wish I could, just like in a musical, … BUT cups of tea -and coffee- can easily twirl in my hand… and end up on the floor… Hence my odd sets!!!
    Hope you find the right rythm’n’shoes… whatever the number of beats…
    I bet you can dance to “la valse à mille temps” with great skill.

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  12. colleen

    Last question: That’s what the cup handle is for! I love thinking about an empty fridge as s dance floor and work tapping its foot but I am a wallflower!

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  13. Ulla

    Corey, I will do a tango for you today! Both Lauren and Nicol are visiting me, wish you were here with us!!! We’ll have to do a repeat this summer, so we can all whirl together…!

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  14. shabbyinthecity

    Oh I think I dance to the beat of a different drummer! I sure wish I was one of those people from the states today 🙂

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  15. K

    Living in the moment is what I know I want to do and always with which I struggle. I love your line about waltzing into the tango. 🙂 Enjoy the cuppa.

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  16. Kit

    I love the image of the laundry waving and the fridge an empty dance floor! So poetic yet so apt.

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  17. Merisi’s Vienna

    Dance with the tea cup full? The Moonlight Serenade, maybe. I hope.
    Otherwise I am all for a twirling fast paced homefun waltz, to leave more time for the after hours. 🙂

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  18. Di Overton

    Watch out Carol you have competition. Coming home to laundry – YUK!

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  19. Alison Whittington

    Woo-hoo! What fun! Let’s dance!
    (Actually, I can’t sit still with a cup of tea or anything else in my hand without spilling it, but I don’t let that stop me.)

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  20. tommiea

    If it is a sippy cup! My husband is the tea drinker in our family….I am the wine drinker, but I guess you can’t have that for breakfast!

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  21. angela marie

    Sure! I can dance with a tea cup… it is empty!
    Enjoy your company!

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  22. Elaine

    You make life a dance and none of us are wallflowers in Corey’s world. 😉

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  23. Blue

    Dance the dance of life! You may spill some tea in the process, but a life without some spilled tea isn’t worth living. Dance!!!

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  24. Gypsy Purple–Chamara

    Oh yes Corey…let`s dance….and tea with it is just stylish….best of luck with the chores…

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  25. christine

    Speaking of Paris breakfasts, I took my elder daughter Alexia to Paris last week and on your advice, Corey we breakfasted at Le Train Bleu on our arrival at the Gare de Lyon. Cost more than the train tickets but Alexia’s astounded silence as she stared saucer eyed at the decoration was worth millions !
    ————————————————–
    Hi Christine!!
    Breakfast! It does cost a small fortune doesn’t it! I have only had tea…but it is WORTH the cost. It is like going back in time and visiting a musuem while you eat isn’t it?

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  26. carolyn

    you certainly can twirl with a cup of tea in hand, but you don’t half make a mess!

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  27. Nora

    Keep dancing and twirling Corey. Never mind the spilt tea.

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  28. susanna

    I think we’ve been living similar lives of late, Corey! If anyone can twirl while holding a cup o’ tea, it would be YOU! Hope you have a fabulous time with your friends.

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  29. Betty C.

    I love letting go of the details of everyday life — don’t you find French women are obsessed with them? Or is that just a country thing?

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  30. karla nathan

    I really like the sepia colored cup, lovely photo.
    thanks for coming by to see me too. Yes, I think my mom would have loved her coffin. I wish I had thought about it before she died, so I could have told her my plan!

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