Day 201: Of all the events I attended as a Morris dancer, May Day was possibly my favourite even though it meant getting up at 2 AM to be in Seattle to meet up with the other most stalwart members of Sound & Fury and other Morris sides from the general area. We'd gather at Gasworks Park on Lake Union, there to dance the sun into the sky, although it must be admitted that sometimes it was obscured by cloud. We never failed to achieve our goal. Then covid hit, and by the time I was willing to expose myself to other human beings, I had grown too old to make the weekly drive to practices so far away, and had to hang up my bells. Today, the team danced as usual at Gasworks, and I...well, I didn't dress for the occasion, but I did dance a wee jig with Merry indoors. This is my tribute to Morris dancers everywhere, all of you together, for your mutual contribution to ensure the Earth another circuit around the sun.
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