DANCE!!!!

YOU ASK ME TO DANCE AND YOU KNOW I'M A DANCING MACHINE{Kings of Leon} Its rare i quote phrases or song lyrics in my writings..However i felt it to be appropriate for this piece...My last blog was written in a haze of Chianti....So when i reread it the next day it didn't come out how i had it in my head...it seemed off track..it wasn't how i wanted it but it is what it was so lets move on...next day next week different blog different lessons ..New day..okay so i was thinking of writing and was searching for a topic and my mind went back to a reception i witnessed a couple of months past!!!at one point in the reception after eating way to much Mexican food and drinking tequila not only at the reception but also at an English pub on the way in which we stopped to have a Guinness use the restroom and catch a few minutes of a soccer game ..well as we waited for the clock to turn and sipped our Guinness i ordered a quick shot of cuervo gold before we left and this is unusual for me cuz i don't favor tequila..however after my quick shot of poison we strolled a few blocks over to the reception and were greeted with chips salsa and yep..you guessed it Tequila!!! Well as my better half chatted with her friends i being the instant social guy when tequila is factored in..well i loosened up..i walked around with one of the husbands of one of the friends and we drank Mexican beers and more tequila..i wasn't drunk was the thing..i was happy and stress free and walked over as the DJ was just finished setting up and put on his first record!! i glanced around and people where migrating to the dance floor...see I'm not much for churches or forgive me hardcore church types..so earlier while at the wedding i judged the crowd to be not boring but maybe very traditional!!! So i told myself nothing new to see there but i was in a great mood and my soon to be wife was happy too and that is one of my favorite scenarios..i depend on..i need it...i know its selfish but when shes happy I'm happier..so as i peered through the reception at the crowd rushing to the dance floor i found myself actually submerged in a small sea of the young ,old,middle aged strangers..i looked for a path back to the bar but found none..i looked to my left and my girl and her friend where beside me apparently watching the excited crowd!!! The dj then dropped the needle and the lights went black then colored lighting swirled the dance floor...the music started and i was directly in front of a group of teenagers and kids as young as two or three....a circle formed and one of the little kids swayed into the middle and showed his stuff....right AFTER HIM, ANOTHER KID A BIT OLDER SPRUNG INTO THE CIRCLE AND SHOWED SOME PRETTY IMPRESSIVE MOVES OBVIOUSLY LEARNED BUT VERY NATURAL ALSO..HE WAS TALENTED...NEXT WAS PROBABLY HIS SISTER THEN ANOTHER YOUNGER GIRL AND MORE KIDS...AT ONE POINT I SAW THE BRIDE IN THE CIRCLE FOR A FEW SECONDS THEN A VERY SMALL CHILD OF ABOUT 2 HOBBLED ABOUT IN THE CIRCLE AND EVERYONE SMILED AND CHEERED.....I SCANNED FACES AND EVERYONE WAS HAPPY AND THEN IT HAPPENED...THE DJ MIXED IN A COLLAGE OF SONGS THAT BROUGHT THE CIRCLE TOGETHER AND HIS RECORDING OF A EXPLOSION VIBRATED THE FLOOR AS I WITNESSED THE TEENS TURN TO THE YOUNGER KIDS AND SMILE AND DANCE YOUTHFULLY AND I WAS IN AWE OF PEOPLE CELEBRATING LIFE!!! THAT'S WHEN I TOLD MYSELF THAT'S WHAT IT WAS THEY WERE CELEBRATING LIFE!!I TOO DANCED THAT NIGHT BUT DON'T REMEMBER MUCH OF IT CUZ IT WASN'T ABOUT ME OR MY DANCE..IT WAS JUST CELEBRATING LIFE THROUGH DANCE!!IF IT HAD BEEN ABOUT ME OR MY NIGHT OUT TO DANCE OR ABOUT SOMETHING I WAS TO CLOSELY IN TOUCH WITH I WOULDN'T HAVE WITNESSED THE WHOLE SCENARIO..I WOULDN'T HAVE ENJOYED IT CUZ ID OF BEEN TO INVOLVED OR UPTIGHT OR STRESSED BUT IT WAS OTHER PEOPLES LIFE'S AND CELEBRATIONS I WITNESSED!! I HAVE ALWAYS DANCED..MANY DIFFERENT PLACES MANY DIFFERENT DANCES...THERE'S JUST NO BAD TIME TO DANCE!!!ITS THERAPY..IN THE LAST TWO DAYS I WATCHED MY FIANCE DANCE DOWN THE ISLE OF A STORE WE WERE SHOPPING IN..THEN LAST NIGHT I WAS SITTING AT MY COMPUTER AND WATCHED MY SON DANCE FROM THE BATHROOM ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE HALL TO HIS ROOM AND I SMILED!! ITS A CONNECTION..IT ATTRACTS PEOPLE TO EACH OTHER AND IT BRINGS COMFORT TO SITUATIONS AT ANY GIVEN TIME!!! I NEVER CARED TOO MUCH ABOUT WEDDINGS OR THOSE TYPES OF THINGS TIL I WITNESSED THE DANCING WHILE AT A MUCH MORE EVOLVED POINT IN MY LIFE...IN TWO MONTHS I GET TO DANCE WITH MY WIFE AND SHE KNOWS I'M A DANCING MACHINE!!!

RIGHTEOUS!!!

DO SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS WITH YOUR LIFE!I sat here trying to figure out the correct spelling of righteous...we just couldn't get that!!!! a 16 year old..a 2nd grade teacher!!
and me!!! we just couldn't get it!!! anyhow...i wanted to write something because im a fan of mankind!! tonight i saw mike Tyson on ESPN n i was emotional!!! he threw punches for all of us in his day!!!the meek...the rich ..the white the black the brown!!! it didn't matter he was our champ!!!!he threw with HOPE..we lack that these days!!! anyway he was on ESPN and today his movie and cameos and his x-box games have once again gave him a cushion of comfort which after hundreds of blows to the head i pray he finds solace!!!or bliss as we dream!!!sooooo i guess my writings pointless after 4 beers a lakers game against the Denver nuggets in which we lost and my son flew out last night to witness unbeknown to him or me but thats what fate had in store 4 us!!!however after all that my point is manifesting itself now before it escapes my reality ...all i want to say is this.....in 1995 mike Tyson walked out of his dressing room fresh out of prison dripping with parole and fresh prison ink scaring his body..as he made his decent to the ring.. a part of people who cared all around the world died that night!!!after!!!the glory came the sewing!!! mike Tyson won his belt back that night n tupac amur shakur died!!!shortly after the victory that night tupac and suge night we're in a lobby in altercation in Caesars palace in which my mothers sister Laura was a veteran of 20 plus years to wit a 21 aka blackjack dealer in Caesars...during the altercation tupac was seen on hotel lobby cameras kicking a man over and over in the head!!!20 minutes after that while on the way to deathrows club 662 a car pulled along side of tupacs bmw and shots rang out...pac was hit several times... and i being in the circle received the call!!!!tupac was pronounced deceased and my son Tommy Jr was healthy!!!!!all i can say to you that will listen is that i once heard a song where tupac said when he got phone calls collect from on mike Tyson a Nevada inmate!!!Tyson was quoted in pacs lyrics as saying only this to pac after pacs release in 1995 from federal prison!! Tyson only had this to say!!! pac!!! you have to do something righteous with your life!!!okay....so this is where we are!!!!!DO SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS WITH UR LIFE!!!!!!!AS FOR ME I WILL DO SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS...IT AINT ABOUT RELIGION OR YOUR JESUS!!!ITS ABOUT BEING RIGHTEOUS!!! TO YOUR WORLD!!! ITS IMPORTANT..I WILL BE RIGHTEOUS TO MY WIFE!! TO MY SON!!! TO MY FAMILY!!! TOO OLIVER WHO ISNT EVEN WAITING TO BREATHE YET BUT I KNOW IN MY HEART HE'S COMING...OR TO LILLY!!!..THAT'S JUST PLAIN RIGHTEOUS!!! SOME OF OUR PAST ICONS NEVER HEEDED THE SIGNS OF THEIR FUTURES BUT AS FOR ME BEING A NON-COM FORMANT..I CHOOSE TO DO SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS!!!!...as for tupac its sad to see talent destroyed by the intoxication of being caught up in this world!!!In my heart i believe pac was headed down the road to that of a righteous path!!!I've been there..where he was i mean!!!fresh out of the joint all eyes on me ...intoxicated by the comfort of violence and silence!!! those words have power so i will close with them!!!DO SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS WITH YOUR LIFE!!!!