[Adta] An Idea

[Suzy Matheson]

Lori,
I was given this not too long ago- I am passing on to you in hopes that it 
might help with brainstorming for an experiential. I plan to read at my 
upcoming workshop for dance teachers, studio owners, creative arts 
therapists, etc... right before we do the Dancing on Wheels session. 
www.adaptivedance.org

-Suzy Rossol Matheson. MA, ADTA, NCC

Holland

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a 
disability--to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience 
to understand it, to imagine how it would feels. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip--to 
Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The 
Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some 
handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your 
bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The flight 
attendant comes and says, "Welcome to Holland!"
"Holland?" you say. "What do you mean, Holland?" "I signed up for Italy!" "I 
am suppose to be in Italy." All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.

But there has been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland 
and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, 
disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just 
a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new 
language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would have never 
met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than 
Italy. But after you've been there a while and you catch your breath, you 
look around and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has 
tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they're all 
bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of 
your life, you will say, "Yes, that's where I was suppose to go. That's what 
I had planned"
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever go away because the loss of that 
dream is a very significant loss.

But if you spend your life mourning that fact that you didn’t get to Italy, 
you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things 
about Holland.

-Author unknown







Suzy Rossol Matheson
www.movementexpressions.com
214-701-5491 Cell

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