Hard Shoe

“Precision can look, from a distance, like restraint. Up close, it looks like intensity.

Only the feet are in the frame. Hard shoes on a wooden stage. Perfectly captured mid-step. From the waist up, an Irish step dancer holds a still, formal posture. Below the knees, thunder.

Most of the people around us are exactly like this. Still on the outside. Thunder on the inside. The stillness is not an absence of feeling. It is a container for the feeling, held with skill.

This image isn’t about a dance.

It’s about what is happening beneath the still parts of you.

What feels calm in your life on the surface — while, underneath, something in you is drumming?”