Tonight A Tear Forms In My Eye

This night finds me not where I had planned, with time on my hands I did sit to watch, "Shall We Dance" with my daughter and wife.  Like i normally do, my daughter who had seen it at least three times this week left the room.  Crazy I sat and watched the whole thing.  Thinking back to my sixteen years so caught up in finite things like earning a living I seemed to have forgot the important stuff like taking my wife dancing.  Sixteen years and not since our wedding day so actually closer to seventeen.  My only problem is I do not know how to dance.

You would think after thirty six years in show business I would have learned at least one thing of this art form. Sad alas it has not happened even though I have worked many a dance show.  I wonder if it is too late with my two knees both having been severely injures in my younger years, a hip that has decided it wants to quit working in sync with the rest of me and a lower back that does nothing but complain.

As a tear forms in my eye this night, I wonder if my wife would notice if I started learning to Tango and Waltz.  Now to find a dance academy or troupe who would barter a few lessons for a light design or two; because that I do know how to do.