Imagine a time when you can hear violins in the background. 

What do you feel? 

Is it a calm that comes over you? 

Do you think about the music before the first chair? 

Or are there times when you let your head lay back then energy comes to your mind and body? 

Feel all of that as you think of this. 

Wonder if there is more when music begins. 

A steady rhythm with a beat that helps you rise off the chair comes into play. 

Aahh, now there is something coming with a song in your space. 

This is how the song starts that can pull me back in time to this phrase. 

Come On has been with my steps and I’ve rolled.

Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners has been with my steps and how I’ve rolled for longer than I’ve been in life since my feet danced with friends all night.

The time when I would be at school during the day, go to work then would rush off to more fun with friends to have more energy pulse through me. 

Can you imagine a part of you being around for decades? Then it changes or evolves. 

That is what I’ve been rumbling with recently. 

When I hear a violin, I want to rush forward with the same kind of joy that comes with this music. 

Too Ra Loo raaaaa then the music trails off with more of the steady beat. 

It was never a surprise for me that my feet began to tap when the song came on. 

What did surprise me later was when our son also began to also love the song. 

Then when he began to say come on!

Then when he began to say come on! 

Let’s dance! 

and away we’d go.

Dancing up and down the hallway, then around into a small kitchen before glancing with a joyful smile and adding some sign telling me that he wanted to go around again. 

He became my muse, that one who showed me the way through a second act of life, and the one who was more that could be imagined. 

How is it that one simple pull of a violin bow can bring such excitement to us. 

It was a beautiful turn and swing of our new rhythm that came into play when I learned from him. 

Let’s pay attention to this part of life, mom. 

Can you see that life is important right now? 

Come on, there’s no time to waste, mom.

Here we go again!

Come on, there’s no time to waste, mom. 

There is a complex resilient joy that comes with this song. 

It pulls at me like a bow across the violin strings. 

Slow, steady, mournful, quick, steady, calm and full of emotion. 

Can you see that all of this came to me with this song over time? 

Over moments that surprise me and jostle with like I’m back to living the life of work, the off for more fun. 

Isn’t that how it goes? 

Living and looking forward and being pulled into it all with a violin at the blink of an eye. 

What I now know is that I’m here for it all. 

I’m also grateful for the boy who loved to dance across the house with a smile in his eyes. 

His life still pulls at me and tells me to come on, let’s keep going together. 

What love in all of this, my friends.