Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader,
After a long nuclear winter…
Dancing is back.
I worked so hard on Permission to be Powerful I went into exile.
But now, I’m back to my old routine.
And I couldn’t be happier…
Because dancing heals.
It made the pain of divorce vanish.
It brought joy, wonder, and adventure back.
It gave me confidence in spades.
I still have the faded wristband from my last Bachata Congress.
Almost a year ago.
I kept it because those nights tasted like forbidden fruit.
Like contraband from heaven’s black market.
But words could never do justice to the experience.
That’s why I started a YouTube channel called Mr. Congress.
I traveled far and wide in search of the best Bachata dancers on the planet.
It was the greatest adventure of my life.
Watch closely—I’m always behind the camera.
Documenting an insane secret society that most people have no idea exists.
Make no mistake: I’m in a dance cult — but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Here’s why.
Until next time,
Dancer, Writer, Buddhist. Pirate
