I Like Your Face!

 

Audrey is home for the summer, so I get to listen to her sing quite often once again. I love it! She’s been a shower singer ever since she was very young, her sweet, little songs mingling with the flowing water with so much freedom and contentment. Here is just the most darling video of Chris and Audrey from 2008. And here are the lyrics so you can sing along:

How I love that pizza.
It’s our favorite eat-za.
With good tomato sauce.
And mozzarella cheese.
We bake!
We eat!
Oh, mama mia!
*mwah*

These days I’m treated to Audrey’s clear, bold voice belting song after song. She recently made this really outstanding music video with her a cappella group that I have watched about a million times.

When people hear Audrey sing, I am often asked, “Do you sing, too?”

WELL.

That is a complicated question. Mrs. Okamura was my piano teacher from a hundred years ago. She was so kind and always encouraging. She used to ask this question:

Q: “Do you know what the definition of a singer is?”

A: “A person who is singing.”

So when people ask me whether I sing, the answer is YES! I am also a singer! Nobody usually wants to listen to me sing, but Mrs. Okamura assured me that I am indeed, by definition, a singer!

Today I took a fitness class called Hip Hop HIITs. It’s described as dance cardio combined with high-intensity interval training (HIIT). “A jammin’ total body workout set to hip hop music!” The instructor was a guest from a different club. Her name was La Tosha, and she was cool and beautiful. She told us, “If you can squat, then you can twerk!”

Q: Do you know what the definition of a twerker is?

A: A person who is twerking.

And that was ME this morning, Boi-i-i!

The secret to feeling successful in a hip hop class is to always keep your eye on the instructor. As long as I watched La Tosha carefully, her moves were my moves. We were practically twins!

Except that I am a terrible dancer. My body can do lots of remarkable things, like pop out a baby in 17 minutes flat, but it does not really move in any dancy kind of way. This did not prevent me from smiling the whole way through and having a ton of fun, however.

After class, people were filing out, and La Tosha was offering gratitude and encouraging compliments.

“Thanks for coming!”

“I’m glad you had fun!”

“You looked great!”

“Great job today!”

I smiled as I passed by. “Thank you! That was so much fun!”

La Tosha stopped and pointed at me with two fingers and a big smile.

She offered me this compliment and it felt so genuine: 

“I like your face!”

Awwww! I don’t know whether anyone has ever said that to me before. My dancing was unquestionably terrible, but my face? GREAT!

Enjoy yourself and do not focus on your shortcomings this week, my friends.
Because I LIKE YOUR FACE!

Thank you for reading!