Chris has been singing and dancing the Hokey Pokey with the kids and it's so darned cute. Even Mary gets in on it. I wanted to tape some video surreptitiously, but Chris wouldn't volunteer to be the dancing one, so I sacrificed my own dignity. The kids are cute though.
Nothing like seeing oneself on video to want to start a diet yesterday. Just recently I was thinking how I really don't look that different than when I was an athletic young woman and yet I weigh 25 pounds more than then. Where could I be hiding 25 pounds? Well, yeah, now I see it.
[EDIT: We've come to learn that the Hokey Pokey dance might be mocking of the Catholic Mass (see source here and here). I don't know how we failed to realize that since Chris has long known and reminded me that we should avoid the phrase "hocus pocus" because it is mocking hoc est enim corpus meum ("this is my body" -- the Latin words of consecration of the host at Eucharist). Anyway, maybe we won't be dancing the Hokey Pokey at our house anymore, but I'll leave the video up because John is cute.]
[Editor-in-Chief Note: video removed.]
I totally laughed at your diet comment. I had no idea about the hokey pokey or the hocus pocus origins.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting about the Hokey Pokey! I'd never heard such things! After reading much of the Wikipedia article, I'm left wondering: it wasn't the creator's intention to mock the Church, but the song has since been used to that end. So, do we hold fast to the original intention and enjoy the song or avoid it because people have since abused it (to the detriment of our Faith)? Hmmm....
ReplyDeleteI've included two sources in this blog post, but if anyone can find more authoritative, academic, or religious sources of information on the subject, we would really appreciate it! We'd like to learn more than these articles are providing and we'd like to learn from better sources.
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