I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I’ve been praying’ for
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.
Johnny Nash – I can see Clearly Now
Good Morning. Let the stress begin…
My first inclination is to describe 2015 as an “annus horibilis”.
Certainly there were enough bad things going on to warrant it. Continue reading
Watch the shadow cross the floor (sun in an empty room)
We don’t live here anymore (sun in an empty room)
Sun in an empty room, The Weakerthans
So our 190 boxes had been moved to the new house and it was time to go back and take one last look at where we used to live.
It had been pouring down rain all day. As I stepped into my old living room for the last time, the sun came out. It hit me that this would be the last time I’d see the sun slant across this floor. We don’t live here anymore. Continue reading
When I heard of the attacks in Paris, my heart broke. Is this what the civilized world had come to? Yet junior seemed unmoved.
While watching the CBC, tears streaming down my face, I worried about my friends, my friend’s friends, my family in DK, my family in Italy. Where would the cowardly acts of stupidity stop?
Junior says, “It’s not happening here, it’s not happening to people I know. I’ll save my tears for then, otherwise I’ll run out of tears.” I understand that. He’s watched me cry for almost a decade but I haven’t run out yet. Continue reading
Music has always been a huge part of my life. Some albums I loved so much and played so often that they became the background
Music in my head
soundtrack to my life. The songs would be playing in the back of my mind for whatever situation I was in, like a movie soundtrack.
I’ve often found that when a situation arouse, the music that needed to accompany that scenario showed up as well. Like the universe sending me musical karma to make it through. Continue reading
Some things are not good the second time around. Cancer is one of them.
April, on the Damp Coast, is cancer month. So for the whole month of April there are events, fund raisers, people begging for money on behalf of all things related to cancer. For me, it’s very irritating. I understand the need for people to try to do something about a disease that makes people feel completely helpless. But my experience is that it seems all the money collected doesn’t always make it down to the patient level.
He did things that only Superman could do
Things that sis and I could not believe were true.
Harry Connick Jr., He is They Are
My dad has always been my superman. There wasn’t anything that he couldn’t do. He could fix anything and build something out of any kinda material. He rebuilt our entire house!
He could climb mountains and swim oceans. He was the coolest dad on the block because he raced motorcycles.
So cool, in fact, it saved me from being stuffed into a locker in grade 8. Turns out the grade 12s had heard of my dad and thought I was cool because of it. Whew! Continue reading
