Redefining Myself

Or rather, my blog. I invite you to notice the new name of this blog, although the address remains the same. Hopefully you will have understood my literary reference. If not, I'll explain it in a minute.

Why, you may wonder, oh why change it now? Aside from being hopelessly generic, it simply didn't say very much about my feelings towards this dance. And it didn't help that bloggers around the globe didn't quite know what to call my blog on their blog roll. The number of variations clearly indicated that something had to be done to the name for people to realize that it was the same blog!

As for the choice of name, Tangri-lá is a topical homage to Shangri-la, that mystical, mythical, harmonious, paradisaical place James Hilton created in Lost Horizon. Of course, Tangri-lá is not mythical. It is the place I go while in the Divine Abrazo. All of us have been there at least once - and why we spend so much of our life obsessing about this amazing dance. We want to go back!

Fortunately for us all, getting there it doesn't require a passport, or vaccines for exotic and deadly diseases (although the Tango bug is incurable). Just another pair of arms and the wail of the bandoneón...