Comments on: You gotta take the bad with the good… http://tinatangos.com/blog/me/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:47:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Elizabeth http://tinatangos.com/blog/me/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-317 Elizabeth Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:07:52 +0000 http://tinatangos.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-317 Tina, Life without the dark side, would be just dull, and the bright side would be less brilliant. Cherie states it so well. As a person who might run into you and might have the pleasure of your conversation, I look forward to your writings. I understand the caution, regarding the community, but when you state your ideas with balance and clarity, (even when they are controversial, or critical) it gives the members of the community some way to balace what is happening. I actually have learned a lot about what my direction in tango needs to be by reading and becomming informed through this blog venue, from you and others. I had NO WAY of knowing that I was getting the wrong (for me) instruction, until I sorted it out through an understanding of the definitions, also from related video, and knowing who's who (long live the cranky traditionalists!) so that I could get the best information and teaching for my money and time. This has helped me to work towards the dance that inspired me in the first place. Also Cherie's very good essay on the Dark Side is pretty important. We don't plan to go to Disneyland, we plan to go to Buenos Aires. In a way, being brave about saying these things is what is required to make into the new medium of blog as journalism, as meaningful to others, not just as a diary of small things. Tina,

Life without the dark side, would be just dull, and the bright side would be less brilliant. Cherie states it so well.

As a person who might run into you and might have the pleasure of your conversation, I look forward to your writings.

I understand the caution, regarding the community, but when you state your ideas with balance and clarity, (even when they are controversial, or critical) it gives the members of the community some way to balace what is happening.

I actually have learned a lot about what my direction in tango needs to be by reading and becomming informed through this blog venue, from you and others. I had NO WAY of knowing that I was getting the wrong (for me) instruction, until I sorted it out through an understanding of the definitions, also from related video, and knowing who’s who (long live the cranky traditionalists!) so that I could get the best information and teaching for my money and time. This has helped me to work towards the dance that inspired me in the first place.

Also Cherie’s very good essay on the Dark Side is pretty important. We don’t plan to go to Disneyland, we plan to go to Buenos Aires. In a way, being brave about saying these things is what is required to make into the new medium of blog as journalism, as meaningful to others, not just as a diary of small things.

]]> By: tangospeak http://tinatangos.com/blog/me/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-316 tangospeak Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:47:08 +0000 http://tinatangos.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-316 People who get upset at the idea that life is not all roses and cupcakes with pink icing need to pull their heads out of the sand and grow up. If there were no ugliness, we wouldn't know what beauty means. If there were no suffering, we wouldn't be able to appreciate joy. People who get upset at the idea that life is not all roses and cupcakes with pink icing need to pull their heads out of the sand and grow up. If there were no ugliness, we wouldn’t know what beauty means. If there were no suffering, we wouldn’t be able to appreciate joy.

]]> By: La Nuit Blanche http://tinatangos.com/blog/me/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-315 La Nuit Blanche Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:52:31 +0000 http://tinatangos.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-315 freshly ripped band-aid... i love that. that woman who complained about your description is an airhead. i wish all cities felt like a freshly ripped band-aid... :) new york, on the other hand, often feels like a never-ending band-aid being ripped off ever so slowly, catching and pulling all your hairs along with it. meowrrrr... freshly ripped band-aid… i love that. that woman who complained about your description is an airhead. i wish all cities felt like a freshly ripped band-aid… :)
new york, on the other hand, often feels like a never-ending band-aid being ripped off ever so slowly, catching and pulling all your hairs along with it.

meowrrrr…

]]> By: Cherie http://tinatangos.com/blog/me/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-314 Cherie Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:42:58 +0000 http://tinatangos.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-314 Hi Tina, I knew that post on The Darker Side would be somewhat controversial, because people like to read about passion and joy, but what goes up comes down, right? And where there's joy, usually heartbreak is nearby. So it's just life. And yes, I wanted people to know it's ALL there in the tango. Hi Tina,
I knew that post on The Darker Side would be somewhat controversial, because people like to read about passion and joy, but what goes up comes down, right? And where there’s joy, usually heartbreak is nearby. So it’s just life. And yes, I wanted people to know it’s ALL there in the tango.

]]> By: kirsten http://tinatangos.com/blog/me/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-313 kirsten Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:23:08 +0000 http://tinatangos.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/you-gotta-take-the-bad-with-the-good/#comment-313 my darling Tina, always remember that you write this blog for yourself, and no one else, and we're merely taking a peek into your little world. If people don't like that you aren't rainbows and puppy dogs and happy happy all the time, then screw 'em. We love you no matter what you write about. xoxo, your best friend (currently frying away in Hell, I mean Arizona...) :) my darling Tina, always remember that you write this blog for yourself, and no one else, and we’re merely taking a peek into your little world. If people don’t like that you aren’t rainbows and puppy dogs and happy happy all the time, then screw ‘em. We love you no matter what you write about. xoxo, your best friend (currently frying away in Hell, I mean Arizona…) :)

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