Monday August 28th
Out on the porch this morning and while the temperature isn’t cool… The dew point at 72° makes it almost pleasant. Last night at bedtime the radar image was pleasantly surprising. Quite a large portion of Southeast Texas showing rain. Not that the water flowing from the sky made it to my neck of the woods.. but, it was the first time in a long time in a long time that a general rain was falling over much of this portion of the state.
As I sit here this morning working on this blog post.. Gordon Lightfoot is playing on the computer. Just another voice that has gone on from this life on earth.
Seems in the last year so that I am feeling a greater kinship with my father. I can recall as a teenager and young adult listening to him mentioned so and so passed away this week… It was always someone in the public sphere who was contemporary with him. In the shallowness of my youth I didn’t understand the familiarity that long acquaintance with a public figure brought.. The sadness felt at the passing of someone you grew up with.. someone you never really met.
These last few years, so many of the artists that have been in the public eye for what seems to be my entire life or beginning to pass on. And I feel a loss each time… I guess you could say my feelings of immortality in my youth have given way to the mortality of reality.. or maybe it’s the reality of my own mortality.
Well.. the kids are in school, the coffee pot is down to dregs, and I’ve had my breakfast… So the day has rightfully started. I am gonna sit here with a book and enjoy the cool of my living room rocker/recliner. So y’all stay cool and I’ll catch you all on the other side… As this song takes me out… Once upon a time I knew the location of this song on every jukebox in every joint I spent any time in… I once thought of it as my anthem.
