Lloyd Shaw Christmas Letter
Lloyd and Dorothy Shaw sent out a post-Christmas letter to members of their "Square Dance Fellowship," participants in the summer institutes and others whom they met. The poetic language certainly shows the Dorothy Shaw influence. We can see in a document like this the way Shaws viewed dance, not as a collection of steps and figures but as a way to bring people together:
"There is no room for narrow sectionalism. We are all part of a mighty plan unfolding. I, the self-important, ambitious I, doesn't matter. From now on its WE that counts. In a few minutes I knew we would be at lunch with dancers from a dozen different states, wonderful people sharing a wonderful dream.
"Square dancing may be the mortar that will bind all our little stones together, bind our groups together. Its deep folk qualities working into the cracks and interstices of our fractured lives, may help to bind the nation together."
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"There is no room for narrow sectionalism. We are all part of a mighty plan unfolding. I, the self-important, ambitious I, doesn't matter. From now on its WE that counts. In a few minutes I knew we would be at lunch with dancers from a dozen different states, wonderful people sharing a wonderful dream.
"Square dancing may be the mortar that will bind all our little stones together, bind our groups together. Its deep folk qualities working into the cracks and interstices of our fractured lives, may help to bind the nation together."