habile - adjective - deft or skillful (Lexico.com)
According to Google, habile is a rarely used word, but one that could possibly come back into style. (Feel free to make that happen.) You could argue that the reason why it has gone the route of the Oldsmobile is because there aren't too many habile people hanging around these days. However, I would disagree, citing evidence to the contrary.
This past weekend, my Millennial daughter treated me to a celebration of the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing" at Mountain Lake Lodge, a.k.a. Kellerman's, just outside Roanoke, Virginia. You might remember that the fictive resort is supposed to be in the Catskills. Well, the Shenandoahs are close relatives. In fact, it was hard to tell the difference between the mountain ranges. But I digress. In order to stay in business, the hotel sponsors several weekends a year devoted to fans of the film, and it includes a full itinerary of events including a showing of "Dirty Dancing" and dance lessons, featuring the choreographed combinations in the picture. (A swim in the lake where Johnny and Baby practice the lift in the movie is the only impossibility as the lake–all of it–vanished in 2008 due to shifting tectonic plates, a major disappointment. The tree-and-vegetation-infested gap left makes it look like aliens somehow abducted the water.) A local ballroom dance studio sent all of their best dancers to teach us weekenders the salsa, the swing, and the merengue, all a lot more doable than they sound. Despite being older and chubbier than the dancers in the film, all of the instructors were quite habile at being light on their feet as well as habile at teaching the moves as we participants trotted away competent in all three dances.
Case in point: Other than the word itself, there is nothing antiquated about being habile. Studying hard and practicing anything will win you a degree of skillfulness, and most likely, a sense of pride in what you do. And there is nothing remotely sinful about that.
Happy Monday!
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