Thank you Don Cornelius

 Don Cornelius I can’t stop thinking about you.  The news said you passed away but it wasn’t until I read the newspaper this morning that I realized you took your own life.  Some may consider that a selfish act but something tells me in your case you knew something the rest of us didn’t.  Did you have a terminal illness? 

Soul Train was the most fun you could have dancing in front of your TV way back when.  Yes we had American Bandstand and growing up in Maryland/DC I had the Milt Grant show but your show?  I have to say by way of disclosure that I am not African American.  I am/was just a girl that loves/loved to dance.  Watching Soul Train I felt like my outrageous moves made me a part of something bigger.  The Saturday AM Bandstand felt a little like a clique to me.  Not being a popular girl or a particularly slim and attractive one that show just left me cold.  I liked the rating new music part…can you dance to that….but that was about all.

Soul Train was hip, it was fun and it was a show!  When my first child was born I danced with him in my arms.  He smiled and giggled and I knew we were doing a bonding dance. 

Thanks Don for helping me move with the beat and feel I belonged.