Recently I was in Shenandoah National Park. The tour group I was with spent the night there and had dinner there as well. After dinner we were in for a treat. There was entertainment. A group of ladies called the Shenandoah Valley Cloggers danced for an hour. As I watched them clogging to song after song, I became aware that they were not all young. One lady looked my age. I was amazed as she clogged away, never missing a step. Oh, she may not have kicked as high as the younger ones; but she never stopped. Wow, was I impressed!  She did the talking for the group between performances and she was not even winded. During the question period, someone asked about the age range of the group. Here came the surprise. The range was 13 to 75.

I just had to talk to her afterwards. She said that she had been clogging for about 38 years and that she was 75 years old. I expressed my amazement and asked her if she minded if I wrote about her in my blog. She said that she didn’t mind at all, so here it is for all to be inspired.

She also said that her doctor told her to continue clogging as long as she was able and as long as she wanted to clog. It reminded me of the words that the doctor spoke to my husband when he asked if it was all right to play volleyball with our granddaughter and her friends:

You have to live. Do what you can do and don’t worry about it.