Tango Porteño

(Tango Porteño, 6 July 2014)

Life's autonomy makes living beautiful. One cannot subjugate the events; one is manipulated by them. One is surprised; relieved of responsibility. One learns.

The exercise of basic liberties confirms one's existence. The exercise of power---physical, emotional, intellectual---in various proportions---multiplies this existence. So does trust.

One may seek balance. Or one may assimilate the extremes and tango: not dejected-apparatchik tango, but unleashed ballet-deity tango, as in the blindfold dance, spoken as if one has been given but a single chance to speak. One has.