She started it. She heard salsa music and started dancing like she does every year at Christmas. By herself or with the broom she’ll step to the right, then to the left, then to the right again in syncopated step with the Latin beats. My mom and her dancing only comes out around the safety the family brings. Within the familiarity of our walls she’s free to step right, step left, step right, and spin around without care.
I would stare at her in embarrassment when this tradition began years ago. After the death of my grandparents we played jibaro music in their absence to remind us they would always be a part of us. And that’s when she started. My mom would dance like she danced when she was a child in her living room by herself or with a broom.
And now, several years later, she’s still dancing.
Photo by Jasmine*
This Christmas was no different. She started dancing again. But something happened. Something changed. Something clicked. The embarrassment I once had while watching my mom was a faded memory. I stared at my mom dancing without a care—living life in a singular moment—and wanted to do the same.
I didn’t want to listen to music to remember my mother like she was remembering hers. I wanted to be my mother. I want to live in syncopated step with those I love in the familiarity of our walls. To dance. And know she started it.
After the Christmas presents were opened and the living room cleaned, jibaro music still filled the house while everyone scurried to set the breakfast table. Except me. I grabbed Matthew’s hands and began to step right, step left, step right again. It was my turn to dance, to move without care, to live in a singular moment. To be in the moment.
Not simply to remember the times, but to be in them.
Amen! God Bless you guys!!!!
I could only think of the string threading through generations. It’s a good husband that will dance with his bride on Christmas morning. God Bless the two of you. And it’s a terrific reminder, “To be in the moment. Not simply to remember the times.”
If we spend most of our time thinking about the past or future, we’re missing life itself. It is passing us by while we’re elsewhere. We can’t get the most out of life unless we learn to focus on being present, while things are happening.
Thank you Bianca. Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo a usted y a su familia
So beautiful. A lesson to us all!
Hope you and your family had a great Christmas xxx
great reminder… live in the moment.
aaaaaaw how beautiful your mum is! I wanna dance too! 🙂
love this!!!
Yep, I'm crying now. Go you. Go, go beautiful you.
That’s beautiful! Keep on dancing! 🙂
I love this so much.
Your words are beautiful girl! I love that…Not simply to remember the times, but to be in them.
i wanna dance too:)
Simply beautiful!!
How awesome! Your mama knows what’s up.
I like this very much, although it was my dad who encouraged me to dance. Dance is a wonderful art and I encourage dance. My dance is only with my husband, kids, sisters,girlfriends and of course with my Heavenly Father. Since the loss of my limbs I thought I would never dance again untill one day when I could barely stand on my Prosthesis, a beautiful slow song began, I wrapped my arms around my husband with tears of joy, I danced again. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13
Love it!!! Dance girl dance!
🙂 ohhh i love it!
I love you Bianca. One of these days we'll take some salsa dance classes together. What sayeth thou?
Love,
Mom
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