{"id":303,"date":"2009-08-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/08\/post.html"},"modified":"2009-08-21T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T02:00:00","slug":"post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/08\/post.html","title":{"rendered":"A Concerted Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife treated me to a special date last night.&nbsp; We went to hear Jonny Lang, the amazing 20-something rock-blues singer-guitarist.&nbsp; Amazing he was &#8211; we both said that was one of the best concerts we&#8217;ve ever been to.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t know Jonny Lang, check out his music; he&#8217;s terrific.&nbsp; Such emotion, such rhythm, such fun!<\/p>\n<p>We were sitting next to a very drunk couple, the guy frequently punching me in the shoulder to make a point, endlessly talking.&nbsp; I just wanted so bad to ask him to be quiet and behave, but he was so drunk I was afraid he&#8217;d turn on me and the shoulder punches become jabs to the jaw any minute.&nbsp; So my wife and I got up and moved.&nbsp; We headed to the mosh pit.<\/p>\n<p>There, a very large woman was dancing to the beat bigtime.&nbsp; What a delight!&nbsp; So we joined her.&nbsp; Soon, lots of folks around us were dancing too.&nbsp; No one cared about how they looked.&nbsp; Jonny Lang was so outrageously great we lost our inhibitions to the music.&nbsp; I&#8217;m a dancer, yes!&nbsp; You know I am!&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=12s4xUgWCv0\">(click here to see me dancing all-out on YouTube)<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t danced at a concert in a while, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last time was last year at an R.E.M. concert at Madison Square Garden.&nbsp; Also, next to drunken revelers, but they weren&#8217;t so nice.&nbsp; I did ask them to be quiet, but they were downright nasty and refused.&nbsp; Shortly thereafter, we were all standing, then dancing in our seats.&nbsp; Wild wooly dancing.&nbsp; In no time the nastiness melted away and we were all friends united in the music and movement.<\/p>\n<p><u>When is the last time you danced your ____ off at a concert?&nbsp; Full-out dancing bigtime, without inhibition?&nbsp; Please share the joyous memories by posting a comment below<\/u>!<\/p>\n<p><u>What song is so irresistible that you must must get up and dance to it<\/u>?<\/p>\n<p>Please email this blog to your friends, and ask them to visit daily: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/drnorris\">beliefnet.com\/drnorris<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on Twitter, too, for YOU!&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drnorrischumley\">www.Twitter.com\/drnorrischumley<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife treated me to a special date last night.&nbsp; We went to hear Jonny Lang, the amazing 20-something rock-blues singer-guitarist.&nbsp; Amazing he was &#8211; we both said that was one of the best concerts we&#8217;ve ever been to.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t know Jonny Lang, check out his music; he&#8217;s terrific.&nbsp; Such emotion, such rhythm,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,4,10,13,21,12,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-fitness","category-joy","category-lifestyles","category-relationships","category-spiritual-weight-loss","category-spirituality","category-weight-loss","category-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Concerted Effort - Dr. Norris J. 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