How I Learned All My Moves

I come from a dancing family. Actually, to put it more accurately, I come from a dancing mom, mostly. I grew up thinking that everyone dances in the living room with their mom and siblings. Didn't you do that as a child? Didn't we all stand on the fireplace hearth with a coat hanger-microphone/guitar in hand singing to the Beatles? Or was that just me...? I sure hope not. I spent many hours of my childhood listening to records (yes, records) and tapes of the classics: The Beatles, Pseudo Echo ("Won't you take me to a FUNKY TOWN?" Didn't everyone's mom exercise/dance to that tape?), and of course, Don McLean, who we only listened to for one song and one song alone: "American Pie". I think if you asked any of my brothers today they'd still know all the lyrics to that 8+ minute song. For kicks we used to put the record on the "fast" setting (I didn't know the technical term for it then and I don't pretend to know it now) and sing the song at hyper-speed in about 3 minutes. I didn't know what a "levy" was at the time but I did understand that someone did indeed drive their chevy to it only to discover that it was dry. I had no idea what the lyrics were talking about, but who cared? The song was AWESOME! It still is.

I think I love music AND dancing simply because I did it with my family. We had a lot of fun in that living room. My mom taught me a lot of moves, they may have been moves from the 60's, but they're still cool. And because I danced at home I wasn't afraid to dance at school or church. (Not to mention all the wicked moves I learned.) This past weekend we took a short trip up to "The Cabin" for a day of playing and birthday party celebrating and 4-wheeling and such. We only stayed one night, but we managed to pack a lot in. We even got a little dancing in. It's nice to see that my mom is teaching the next generation all her great moves. And it's equally nice to see that my niece has got some RHYTHM. (Und ya, ve vere dancing to das Beatles...in GERMAN.)



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