beckon

With her arms stretched out, she beckons the participants of her movement workshop, Wiggle Room, to join her on the other side, where they will meet a renewed version of themselves.

“Come on in,” the woman says, beckoning us indoors with a nod.

The old woman grunted and used one long, gnarled finger to beckon Penelope inside.

“Bravo, one and all!” the headmistress exclaimed as she beckoned her visitors inside.

Bars beckon along our path of modern-day “riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding,” and we dance our way in and out of a few joints, looking for the right madness.