Notes in the key of C

The wanna-be dancer in me has been set free! No more will I be the wallflower watching everyone else having a good time and wishing, just wishing that I could step out there on the dance floor and “cut the rug” with total abandon and complete disregard for what others might think.  Feels soooo good it always puts a smile on my face. No, I’m not talking about rock-n-roll dancing or two-stepping to a country melody.  It’s ballroom dancing, brothers and sisters.  That’s right……BALLROOM dancing.  I surprised myself, too because all my life as I was wishing I knew how to dance and just refused to because I felt so self conscious about never learning how to dance,  I never dreamed I would be taking lessons on the foxtrot, waltz, tango, cha cha, rumba and salsa.  Whaaaaat??  That’s “old folks” dancing, isn’t it?  Well, it might be to some and maybe I have aged and evolved that much but I’m telling you it’s good, clean fun, even for us “old folks”,  and good exercise too.  How nice it was to discover that I DON’T have two left feet.  Of course, I’m going have to grease the hip bones up a little because they don’t seem to want to do what the dance tells them to do. How do you make the bottom half of your body move while the top remains in one position?  I need a swivel in the middle that’s just not there.  I suppose that’s Matt (stepson) and Laura’s challenge as they attempt to turn us into dancers.  One couple, two instructors. Nice ratio.

     Yes, we’ve got a professional dance instructor in this family and with the opening of his new ballroom dance academy here, came the opportunity for the little lady and I to learn how to dance.  No freestyle here! Not yet, anyway but at least I’m not as stiff as when I took my first steps on the dance floor.   Unfortunately, a few of those steps continue to land on my wife’s feet.  Maybe if could get in touch with my elusive (and surely non-existent) feminine side, I’d be able to look a little more fluid like those couples on “Dancing With The Stars”.   (Whoever came up with that idea, anyway, that men have a so-called “feminine side”?)  It’ll happen sooner or later.  One lesson at a time, two times a week,  practices in between,  dance videos  (can you say Salsa?)when we can find them and I believe we’re headed in the right direction.

        I think I hear the music playing.   SHALL WE DANCE??????