Lyrics, Songs, Performers...

This will be a running list of lyrics that mean a lot to me, for a variety of reasons, some purely for the imagery they produce, some from personal memories attached.  Music has enriched my life and I am sure Heaven is just filled with all sorts of it!




"Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try.
No hell below us, above us only sky.
Imagine all the people, living for today.
Oh, you may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will live as one."
.....John Lennon


"I tip my hat to the keeper of the stars,
he sure knew what he was doing,
when he joined these two hearts.
I have everything, when I hold you
in my arms,
I've got everything I need,
thanks to the keeper of the stars."
.....Tracy Byrd




"It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me" 
....Taking it Easy, The Eagles (my favorite band of all time)




"You are so beautiful to me..."
......Joe Cocker

A Christmas Gift

After a day shared with most of my family, I made a late afternoon Christmas visit to my sweet little mother-in-law at the nursing home.  She is 93 and very frail, beginning to fail as most of us expect a person of that age to do....can't see to read or watch TV, can't hear much of anything, has trouble walking now.  It's so sad to see her declining, since we spent so much time together through the years, talking and laughing, and just generally hanging out.

It's very hard to have a conversation with Erma, due to the hearing loss, but I've found if I can ask the right questions and get her talking, then I don't have to shout so much, and I learn some interesting things.  I feel that today she gave me a wonderful Christmas gift without even knowing she was giving it.  I asked her what year she was born; 1918.  I made a comment about how many changes she must have seen in the world since then, and she started talking.  And talking.  And talking!  Bless her heart, it seems to even be getting more difficult for her to talk, but she gave it a royal go!  She talked about having no running water or electricity in her childhood home, and about taking baths.  They only got to bathe on Saturday nights, in a big washtub, and all of them used the same bathwater.  Being the oldest, she had to be last.  I find that so incredibly sad, but it was just a way of life then.  They kept their milk in a spring house, since there was no refrigeration, and she said it was down a path and across a little bridge.  She was deathly afraid of snakes, and said there was no telling how much milk got sloshed out of that pail on the way back to the house from her running so fast to avoid snakes!  

When her grandmother died, they 'laid her out' in the home, as there was no embalming back then.  She said they had silver dollars laying on her eyes, to keep them closed.  She liked going to her grannies house, since she had a telephone and Erma's parents didn't.  Her mother was petrified of storms, and when it started to look like one was coming they all had to go to the grannies house.  Erma said that was not the best thing to do, since the telephone line attracted lightning and she had seen it 'dancing all across the floor' at her grannies house!  I asked her if she was afraid of it, and she said no.

Of course there was no TV, no internet, and no one even imagined those things where she grew up.  She was a country girl, and never outgrew it.

I am sorry I didn't take time all through the years to record the treasures she shared with us, as well as all the wisdom from other relatives who have gone on before us.  Hindsight is 20/20, according to the old saying.  

Favorite Quotes

"I don't want to survive, I want to THRIVE,
with some passion, some compassion,
some humor and some style."  Maya Angelou

"From those to whom much has been given, much is expected."

"Blessed are the cracked, for they are the ones who let in the light."

"I want to be the people's Princess."  Princess Diana

"Things may not be right with my circumstances, but it is well with my soul."  Jenny Sanford