paradise

I cannot imagine anything closer to living in paradise than being able to dance every day with the same person.
Last night, I was up until two AM watching several couples who have been blessed to do that very thing.
Tonight, I was blessed to watch those same couples again.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir for Canada...
Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte for Italy...
Kana Muramoto and Chris Reed for Japan...
Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev for Russia...
Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani for the USA.
The first couple, in their thirties, was skating together for the last time, after having eighteen years of competition.
That last couple, in their mid-twenties, are siblings who have skated - and danced - together for fourteen years.
The 'Shib Sibs', as they are called by the media, chose Coldplay's "Paradise" as their song for their final skate in this Olympics in Korea.
They truly were poetry in motion.
I have not yet located a video of their performance, But here is the song's video.
Just close your eyes as you listen and imagine the grace and pathos this brother and sister imparted to these lyrics.



i thank You, God, for the 2018 Winter Olympics and the sport of ice-dancing.