The Kitchen Dance

Childhood teaches us more than we are willing to admit. Not just book learning and school but the impact parents have on us. For as strict as my father was with discipline , there was a side of him that was gentle. Of course being ill a lot as a child, he did his share of pacing the floor , dancing and singing to try and get me to fall asleep. I find in the many years since his passing, the harder side of him has taken a back seat to the positive that I believe he instilled in us as children. Music and dance became an integral part of who we are.  Sometimes I found music was like the great escape. Creating worlds, visiting places in the mind and as we joking would say " music calms the savage beast." From one of the first children's songs "Frere Jacques Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques,Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines Ding dang dong, ding dang dong. to a wide range of music or his favorite to sing when I was not well. "Playmate come out and play with me, my dollies got the flu boo hoo hoo, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door and we'll be ever friends forever more. " Okay so it wasn't to wide a range of music. We use to say mother could break a glass singing Opera and I don't think we meant that in a good way. 

Dad served in the war during world war 2, stationed in Germany, France and Poland he spoke many different languages. I don't even think I realized until I was an adult that we grew up talking a variety of languages all mixed together.  Well  we knew just enough to get by . One of my fondest memories was of my parents dancing in the kitchen. Somehow the negative just faded away and all seemed for the time being as if the world or at least my little corner of the world was perfectly fine.

It wasn't till I realized what falling " in love" felt like or that I figured out there were all kinds of love. But "in love" ahh now that is power and magical.  Where your feet literally lift off the ground and you basically dance on clouds. The emotion can stir the passion and explain the ache within the heart.
I don' t have any one particular favorite song well except for maybe the kitchen dance with the song "always and forever. "  Of course how can one forget the magic of falling in love " Wise men say only fools rush in , but I can't help falling in love with you."  Will you take my hand and share in a kitchen dance? I'll go easy on you we can do the basic box step. You lead I'll follow, the clouds in the heavens await us. 

Take me to your arms, 

oh! take me to your heart, 

let the love on in and 

allow the dreams to begin. 

Slide across the floor,

with you whom I adore

and pull me ever close 

like a honey bee to a rose.

Take me to your arms, 

oh! take me to your heart, 

let the love on in and 

allow the dreams to begin. 

Round and around we go

the passion surely shows, 

the desire of two when 

I dance with you. 

Take me to your arms, 

oh! take me to your heart, 

let the love on in and 

allow the dreams to begin

Memories are made 

in reserve for another day, 

as I take to the clouds 

and to my king I bow. 

Take me to your arms, 

oh! take me to your heart, 

let the love on in and 

allow the dreams to begin

You lead and I'll follow

with you for evermore, 

creating our paradise 

while begging for more. 

Take me to your arms, 

oh! take me to your heart, 

let the love on in and 

allow the dreams to begin