A Road Less Travelled

Today I introduced the boys to Stomp. For those of you who do not know Stomp is a stage production wherein they take junk and beat on it and make really cool music. It is a combination of percussion and dance all surrounding the instruments of choice. The instruments are usually something like trash cans, trash can lids, metal buckets, brooms, metal signs and various other debris. Several years ago I got to see Stomp live in Erie. Then, one of my sisters and her husband bought me a video Stomp made for HBO as a Christmas or birthday gift, I don’t remember which. I would watch the video and walk around beating on things for days. And now I have exposed the boys to this. I can not imagine what they will do. After I explained that it was not a story and that they were making music with brooms because it is cool they really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to share something that I love with them and to have them like it and appreciate it. I suspect that I will find them with chopsticks tomorrow, but that’s the price we all must pay.