Freedom’s just another word for … jitterbugging!
-
Okay, I haven’t done this in a while, but this is a YouTube video my mom sent to me and it’s just so much fun I have to pass it along even though it’s not important or serious.
But it’s got middle-aged people jitterbugging in it, and having a really good time as near as I can tell. And so it made my day.
Two things I like about it, now that I’m thinking of it:
- I love when ordinary people who aren’t that young, that pretty or that slick-looking go ahead and go for it. The world has a way of pushing its own idea of Beautiful People at us, but I like to see people push back once in a while.
- It took me halfway through the song to realize that it was “Me and Bobby McGee,” which I still think of as an anthem of the depressing ’60s. Still, if anyone had told Janis Joplin that someday senior citizens would be jitterbugging to the song, she probably would’ve thought her last dose of heroin was dodgy.
Related posts:
- It’s really loud with the shopvac on
- We’ll be right back, after this brief word from St. Anthony the Great
- An additional Cross-word
- “… a living word, warmed with love …”
- But first, a word about my tea
Leave a Reply
2 Responses and Counting...
My husband and I watched this together and found it instructive and inspiring
We have been taking swing dance lessons, and this might make us brave enough to try the jitterbug! Does your mom dance?
Not that I’ve ever seen. I think I’ve heard her say that Dad used to dance with her when they were courting but once he had “sealed the deal” (in marital terms) he never did again. Then again, I may be thinking of Greg, who told me outright that dancing was only something he ventured to do before I said I’d marry him. Darn, if I had known that, I might have tried to stay engaged a lot longer.
So you should be glad if you got a guy that didn’t do that bait and switch thing. This kind of dancing seems like it would be a lot of fun.