Were you wondering?

Maybe not but then again I wonder some times what all of you are doing and what you are thinking or imagining.  Are you at work, at home or some other place where people are hunched over their comps in hushed, concentrated urgency. Are your feet cold, are you tired, hungry, frazzled, happy, nervous, sad or numb? Do you have a headache a sore knee, hip or back. Did you take your vitamins today or any meds you need to make it through?

I am sitting at my improvised computer table, looking out the window at the snow falling gently through the trees, the washing machine sloshing in the background.   My feet are cold.  I need to eat something for lunch but I don't much feel like figuring out what I want.  Maybe a PBJ samich will stave off  the hungriness. I am worried about my daughter, cause that's what moms do. Nothing has been figured out yet so we are marking time till the doctor tells her what she must do and where to go to get the stuff to do.  Not sure what specialist she will be seeing.  So all of us are worried.  Saying prayers to calm and reassure. Hoping that whatever it is, we all deal with it well.

I have opened a tubie to Pink Floyd's "Time"  and have it cranked up as high as it can go. The sounds of the washing machine are mixing with it nicely. I like PF and today I am acting like a teenager with a new single, playing it again and again... letting the vibrations zinggggg  me over and over.  I love how the guitar riffs tickle my backbone. How at places, the small hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I get a rush.  If I play it enough, I will end up singing along... don't worry no one else is here to hear me.  I think I have played it 7 times already.

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TIME - lyrics

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time has gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

BREATHE REPRISE
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
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Is there a magic spell? What spell do I want or need? Would I recognize the spell if I heard it? Incantation that would do what? EXACTLY!

 We go to the nursing home at least twice a week to see Frank's mom. I have been going to the nursing home for so long now - watching and listening, smelling and smiling, crying and laughing, talking and holding.  "As time goes by" - that's a song too. It creeps up on you, days go and then you wake up realizing there is some new affliction to deal with. CHIT- is that the tolling of the iron bell? Another saying. " make hay while the sun shines" 

One of my favorite songs is "Young at Heart" - yes that is an old fart song that maybe a lot of you have never heard.  Sinatra and  Como have great renditions. The one here is sung by Dean.  Kinda cute. I heard one by George Burns that was priceless.

Did I give you a bit of musical whiplash, taking you from FLOYD to  FRANK & DEAN? hehe - that's me.

All this, to come back to my familiar but much repeated phrase:

KEEP DANCING!