So, you’ve heard about a folk dance and you’re not sure whether to go?

If you were to come, you’d hear and see a wonderful live band, have energetic and joyful dancing, a hearty supper, nice people, know that everyone is welcome, that the dances are not complicated and are all taught and called, that it costs less than a movie ticket yet you get up to four hours of euphoria and that you’re supporting local musicians.

You’d be most welcome to come.  It’s a lot of fun and no dancing experience is required. Lots of people come who’ve not danced much or at all before, and it’s all about fun, not precision or performance.  You don’t need to bring a partner.  There are lots of people to dance with.

On the way to Perth and picked this up at the Adelaide Airport Bookshop.
“The crucial ingredient in human interaction is eye contact…
You can’t make eye contact with someone on a screen, no matter how much you might try to trick your brain into thinking you can…
Why do you think the heaviest users of social media (young adults aged eighteen to twenty-five) also report the highest levels of loneliness? It’s because they are lacking sufficient true social connection; they are lacking sufficient eye contact; they are missing too much of the richness and subtlety of face-to-face interaction… they are connected but lonely.”
In ‘The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening” by Hugh MacKay

#loneliness #eyecontact #connection #socialmedia