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  "description": "You’ll always win if you know this one thing.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-08-10T17:59:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I’m starting to realize my shoulders have been tense.\nI could use a massage.\nSo, here's a very good massage, from a very good Doctor Ma-Seuss...\n\nDr. Ma Seuss and Ms. Jane out on the dance floor again.\n\nJane says to the good Doctor:\n\n\"Where might I find a proctor, to do my work tonight?\"\n\nThe Doctor replied with a gleam in his eye:\n\"Who would work when this feels so right?\"\n\n“But work is a thing, a real, real thing,” said Jane.\n“But too much of it will make you insane.”\n\nThen said Doctor Ma Seuss:\n\n“Yes. You’ll want to jump off all things, you’ll strap up a noose.\nYou’ll become quite dull, you’ll become quite obtuse.\"\n\nJane then replied, as she was known quite to do:\n“I guess I’m left with no choice but to dance here with you.”\n\n“Oh, you have choice my dear you always have that,\nBut I’d like to think dancing is where it is at.”\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\n\"We can step right and left\nWe can dance to and fro,\nWe can go wherever our dreams say to go.\"\n\n“But good Doctor,” Jane stated now seeming elated:\n“I do like to dance with you here as you say,\nBut I also enjoy work, and a long hard workday.\nAll work and all play well they each make me tired.\nA little of each and I’m so ever inspired.”\n\nAnd Seuss with his smile did wonder awhile.\n\nThen, yes then, he knew what he knew.\nHe knew what he knew and what he must do.\n\nHe took Jane’s hand in his and led her this way,\nThe way that you dance, the way that you sway.\n\nHe danced her through the hall.\n\nHe danced her out the door.\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nHe danced her down the street,\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nAnd just past the mall.\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nHe took her up hills and down valleys so deep.\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nHe took her over mountains the steepest of steep.\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nThey danced past bakeries.\n\nThey danced past it all!\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nThen the Doctor stopped at a door in the wall.\n\nAnd Jane gasped hypnotized\nHer eyes flashed wide open\nShe was quite surprised.\n\nThe building before her was her workhouse it’s true,\n“Just why, good Doctor,” Jane begged to know why.\n“Did you just do what you do?”\n\n“Why, you ask why?!\nI don’t want to stop dancing no, no not ever, never,\nAnd when you said you liked work well, I got very clever.\"\n\n\"If I could but understand the way that you feel,\nI could see your love of work and I could help you heal.”\n\n _Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\n“But Doctor, don’t you get it, don’t you see your own truth?\"\n\n\"For me there is my work and there is my play.\nBut you found a way to do something that brings others dismay.\"\n\n\"Your dance is your work, and your work is your dance\nNot many an anyone would take that big chance.\"\n\n\"You’ve found your one passion and made it your own.\nYou could never be held down with the seeds that you’ve sown.\"\n\n\"Your dreams are your dance, your dance is your dream,\nYour dreams are your work, that’s the best that it seems.\"\n\n\"One can have work and one can have dreams\nBut a few very lucky ones have both be the same.\"\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\n\"My dear Jane,\" said the Doctor now pleasantly taken:\nNo man, or woman, or child has ever been so mistaken.\"\n\n\"That luck should have anything to do with my state,\nIs to put everything on the shoulders of fate.\"\n\n\"But Fate is no guard at this door don’t you see?\nFor Fate and I know each other quite well,\nFor Fate, my dear, Fate, Fate himself, is me.\"\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nThen Good Doctor Fate Ma-Suess did go on so:\n\n“I’ll dance with you, sing with you\nGo where you go.\"\n\n\"I’ll dance you to work, I’ll sing you to sleep,\nI’ll show you your dreams, I’ll give you things cheap.\"\n\n\"I’ll make you just how you want to be,\nAnd that is all that I’ll ever be.\"\n\n\"I am what you make me, it’s true you can choose,\nKnow this, dear Jane, and you never can lose.”\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nThen Good Doctor Fate Ma-Suess\nStarted a lesson which should be put to good use.\n\nYou’ll always win if you know this one thing:\n\n\"You should dance, you should laugh,\nBut only if it is Your Thing.\"\n\n\"Never be, do or say what another wants done,\nYour faith keeps you strong as you reach for the sun.\"\n\n\"Fate is not a prison, not a ball, not some chains,\nI’m here for your choosing, in fact I am choice.\"\n\n\"They say my opposite is freewill and they use a strong voice.\nBut they are wrong my real face, yes, my real face is choice.\"\n\n\"So, dance your own dance, say your own grace,\nAnd never, ever, fight your own face.\"\n\n\"Choose your own choice and dance in your shoes,\nChoose to dance in the shoes that you choose.\"\n\n\"Choose my dear Jane, choose and choose and choose.\"\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nThen Doctor Fate Ma-Suess pointed at the workhouse door so Jane would see:\n\n“Go in the door or stay outside but dance free.\nThe point my dear dear Jane is as it’s always been:\nIf you choose what you choose you will always win.\"\n\nIt was then that Fate danced far into the sky,\nYes, Fate, Fate himself, left Jane at the door,\nLeft Jane, Jane herself asking ‘Why?’\n\n _Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nJane learned the lesson the Doctor did say,\nBut Jane learned another lesson that day.\n\n“Why dance me so far to this door just to tell me his name?\nHe could have done that while dancing, it would’ve sounded the same.\"\n\nThen Jane knew.\n\n\"The Doctor taught me a lesson far greater than what saying can do.\nYes, Good Doctor Fate Ma-Suess showed me what dreaming can do.\"\n\n\"And if dreaming can dance and dreaming can sing,\nThen why would anyone choose any other thing?\"\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nIt was then that Jane smiled.\n\nShould she go in the door, back to the work there inside?\nShould she go up dancing in the blue sky so wide?\n\nShe stood there puzzled, her questions would not stop,\nThen she started to laugh, then she started to pop.\n\nIt did not matter if she stayed out or went in,\nWhat mattered was the voice that came great from within.\n\nThat voice that allowed the choice.\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nSo, which did Jane choose Inside or Out?\n\nShe chose to live a life different, to take a new chance,\nFrom now on her answer to every choice was to:\n\n_Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot and +he Ghos+ (2024)_\n\nDance. Dance. Dance.\n\n⋈Wynn⋈💃🕺🎉",
  "title": "The Shoes You Choose",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-14T21:33:28.595Z"
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