What a fool believes
I don’t fly. My fear of heights and flying is utterly stupid legendary. And it’s nothing new, either. My last flight was on 15 August 1983, to get the kids and me back into the United States! And I won’t fly ever again. Everybody knows all about it. I am a freak!
With that in mind, I’m so very grateful that I didn’t know about the 23rd Annual Fall Music Festival. It would have killed me either way – to know about it ahead of time and not go, or to have a coronary in mid-flight brought on by fear. What a double-header! It’s way too far to walk there, but I might have tried.
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I’m a music person. I don’t much care for sitting around watching TV or movies which makes one wonder why I got married the first time and the second time. I’m not sure how to turn our TV on and couldn’t push the 18 buttons in the proper sequence to get the Blu-Ray to work because I’ve never cared enough to learn. I always have music playing in the car – loudly - and it seems like I’ve been driving for a great deal of my life. Now, it’s a CD-changer that holds the Journey and Doobie Brothers music, and the iPod, and it used to be a cassette player – Before that, it was all “Top 40″ and on the radio with the other crap and the commercials! I like how technology has given us control and we can now listen to the music we like, and not be bothered with the rest.
So this morning, it was Michael McDonald’s turn to entertain me (The Ultimate Collection) on the morning commute. And I’ve played it a thousand times before, and surely remember when all the songs were new, and we’ve all hummed along with the lyrics, never really looking for any deep meanings there. Just great tunes, good beat. Maybe I’ve wished I was on a dancefloor rather than behind the steering wheel!! Oh, yeah, many times.
But today, there was something else there with me.
He came from somewhere out of her long ago….
What a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away.
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all.