“At a time when the world seems to be spinnin’ hopelessly out of control / There’s deceivers and believers and old in-betweeners, that seem to have no place to go.” – Hands on the Wheel by Willie Nelson Watch on YouTube And John Lennon’s lyrics filled my heart today as I gazed out the restaurant…
“I met a girl who sang the blues And I asked her for some happy news But she just smiled and turned away” – American Pie by Don McLean This song rang through society’s collective consciousness when it was released as a number-one US hit, lasting four straight months in 1972. The refrain, “Bye-bye, Miss…
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” – God by John Lennon When I first called Rob about putting the band back together, it was as if he’d been thinking about it already… saying something like, “Sure Fred, what do you have in mind?” And, when we finally connected with our original…
Fred Figures – Sept 2010 “Congratulations! You look like a very happy couple.” That’s what a man called out to us before driving away from a stop sign as we walked arm in arm together one evening. We were both surprised and appreciative of his comments – expressed as they were with genuine sincerity. It…
“I guess you can say that I’ve been lucky… all because of you” My Life Story by Gladys Knight Coming back from London – driving down the western slope leading to our Bright farmhouse – I could see in the distance a strange van slowly crawling out of our gravel driveway. Two minutes later, as…
As I unravel my thoughts, here in the coldness of a winter’s eve, I wonder what our retirement years might look like for my wife and I… knowing our marriage is a gift to each other. “The Frost King has come and with a flick of his thumb, turned the windows to Renaissance art /…
“I drew a picture of a pair of wings, because I want to fly My mother asked me to explain, I said that I would try… the art of really flying was dying” – Dream #2 by Ken Tobias Once…
Friends were talking about how our parent’s generation (born in the ‘20’s and ‘30’s) was not one to show signs of affection – keeping their feelings to themselves. Some blamed this on the era in which our parents lived: austere times of the great depression and world wars. Although, my generation was raised on TV,…
When our youngest daughter was a little girl, she asked if Santa Claus was real or just pretend? Now, as a young adult, she’s asking is religion real or an illusion? Her intelligent, inquiring mind never suffered fools lightly. Now, she’s asking if I’m just fooling myself. “Well, I never been to Heaven/ But I…
“Here I come screaming out of childhood’s burning barn on a leash too short to reach the person I was meant to be” Written by Canadian poet Phil Hall, these words come from the book ‘White Porcupine’. In my mind’s eye, as I re-scan these words, I can see many images. Initially, as a warning to…
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