I'm reminded once again

This time I'm paying attention. It all began with a video that Ric Saurer posted talking about creativity education in schools and the story about this little girl who's mom was helped to discover that her child had a love of dance and that was why she couldn't sit still.
From the time I was very young.. I always knew I was a dancer. My outlets were to twirl baton, feel the rhythms  and march to the step counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 over and over in my head. I can find a beat in anything. Then I began watching American Bandstand and Soul Train. At this point I knew that I should have actually been born a black woman.. or at least in another city because I needed to have places to dance. Orrville which is 90% white with a sprinkling of diversity was not a good place for a young girl who wanted to dance to grow up. I'm not sure but I even think the dance studios were over in Wooster and the girls who had money seemed to be able to go there for lessons. I don't know..my lessons were always in baton. So back to Orrville and dancing. So we'd have these "dances" in school where I don't remember any girls or boys dancing fast. It was always just bump and grind. Of course my thoughts on this was that white boys can't dance. If they did, I never saw them. But boy oh boy could the black boys dance. No wonder I wanted to be a different race! They had all the fun!  I still enjoy watching black people dance and their sense of rhythm is amazing.
Okay, so another thing that came up recently that reminded me of my love of dance, was this drum circle I went to on Friday night. There were about 20 people there and a couple of dancers.  People drumming, playing percussions, watching. I was mesmorized by the beats. I watched this one belly dancer and found myself instead of putting together a beat for her to dance to, was actually drumming to the rhythm that she offered. 
I'm not sure what is going to come out of all of this realization. But I started with starting a baton group on meetup.com  I can definitely see myself twirling to the rhythm of a drum circle and would love to have other twirlers to perform with.  Or perhaps I just need to invest in some costumes and get out there in my barefeet and dance to the rhythms.
All I know is that rhythms and dancing is the way I was blessed with creativity. Yea I'm older, and overweight, but the fun and energy I feel when in the presence of the beat has always been me.
Not denying, but will pay attention always...