Dancing to the Song in Her Head

Winter proved no impediment to this woman who stripped her coat in a

public square in a large Ukraine City and started dancing, working

up a sweat and causing passersby to scratch their heads and question

her sobriety and mental health. Your ratings and critiques are

invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically,

please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

superior photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! John

Unlike others, who treated her like a crazy woman, I understood she was in an 'alternate reality' and was at least partly aware of it. Also, she gave me a gift of a series of wonderful photos, which I truly respect. There is little room for denigration in my world when such things overlap.

Thanks for being so observant.

John (Crosley)

excellent photo! I di sometimes ago a work about insane people that live in a small town and they just can walk outside in the streets.

regards.

Alfredo

If such people don't harm themselves or others, what's the harm? This woman danced, then put on her coat, and walked away; it's just that she did her calisthenics/dance in front of a growing crowd in the city square (yes, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine actually has the equivalent of a city square, right in front of . . . McDonald's).

She wasn't well-bathed . . . as far as I could tell, and her sweater was black under the arms (see above), but otherwise she was in far better physical shape than most Ukrainian women her age, who tend to become quite fat. Maybe she really wasn't so insane at all, but just marched to a different drummer.

The young women are fit, but not so strong; she was older and very strong and fit. A contradiction in that country.

Thanks for your thoughts.

John (Crosley)

The question is that my "our" normal social behaviour "we" normally put this people in mad people houses and hidden from society. Spanking, bed conditions are many times their day by day despite al pills to make them peacefull.

Who are the real mad ones? those that drops missiles lying about it? well...

my regards!

In America, no one can be held against their will, unless they are a danger to themselves or others. Period. They have a right to prove it in court. Punishment has long gone, at least officially.

Sounds like the stone age, where you write of.

John (Crosley)