NOW IS THE HOUR Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined. One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing forward to the next one, but poised directly on the present step as it comes. Perfect poise on the beat is what gives good dancing its sense of ease, of timelessness, of the eternal. It is what Blake was speaking of when he wrote: He who bends to himself a joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flees Lives in eternity's sunrise. The dancers who are perfectly in time never destroy the winged life in each other or in themselves. ...... why is it so difficult......... It is fear, I think, that makes one cling nostalgically to the last moment or clutch greedily toward the next. Fear destroys the winged life. But how to exorcise it? It can only be exorcised by its opposite, love. Anne Morrow Lindbergh