Nostalgia- The Death of "Music"

I wandered onto you Tube Friday night following somebody's Facebook post. Started pulling up the musicians of the Swing Era. Sinatra, Glen Miller, Julie London. Doris Day, Bennie Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Ink Spots, Mills Brothers, Dinah Shore, Gogi Grant, Julie Christi, Louis Armstrong, Peter Paul and Mary,etc. And I said to myself . . .

Where has all the music gone? Long time passing. Gone to rap and grunge, and no talent electronically enhanced non-singers, boy bands, and profanity-laced non-melody,non-harmony noise.

When will they ever learn, when will they learn?

Living with the Queen Mum

One rule I neglected to mention the other day is this:

"Never make rash promises that you don't understand completely."

For example, "Our home will always be open to you, and you will never have to go to a nursing home."

Bad decision

Forty years later, I'm 70 years old and the Queen Mum is 91.

She doesn't understand being a "guest" in my home, but still believes she gets to run everything.

She got up at noon today to take a shower. She finally left the bathroom to join us in evening scripture reading and family prayer at 8:30 pm.

Even though she has severe edema in her legs, they have sores and "weep", she sits on her "throne" all night long rather than putting her feet up to allow the swelling to subside.

It would be such a pleasure to have nights free to go to bed, food that we wanted to eat, and at a reasonable hour. Great to be able to go out for dinner somewhere without the whining and carping because we didn't take her, although we would wait until 10:00 pm for her to get ready.

So again, don't make promises that will sneak up and bite you in the derry aire some years later.

More Musings

If you see me driving down the road and it looks like the person in the passenger seat has a bag over her head, don't call the police. please!

It's just my mother-in-law engaged in another bout of demented activity.

You see, she believe that if she isn't wearing wrap around super-dark sunglasses she will get a recurrence of cataracts. Yes, they will return if her eyes are exposed to ultraviolet light.

Even though she had cataract surgery in 2007!

Even though she no longer has the jelly-like lenses that God gave us on birth.

Even though it's those natural lenses clouding over with age that produces cataracts.

Even though the plastic lenses inserted in her eyes (and mine ten years earlier)will never cloud over.

Recurring cataracts are oxymorons! It can't happen.

But 24/7, if she gets out of the house, she dons her "Light-bans" before she leaves the front porch. It gets really interesting if it's pitch dark because then she's effectively BLIND, and can't find her way from the car to the house.

And if she forgets them and we don't have time to go hunt for them, she puts a paper towel over the front of her face to keep light from getting to her eyes. Even moon light, as well as street lights and car headlights.

Nothing will convince her otherwise that she misinterpreted the eye doctor when he told her to protect her eyes for the first three days after the surgery. Now it's a forever ritual.

Musings of a Septuagenarian

Some good rules to live by:

1.Never draw for an inside straight.

2. Don't lend money to a friend without an IOU

3. Don't loan money to a friend.

4. Don't loan money.

5. There ain't any such thing as a free lunch.

6. Sam Houston students have a death wish, walking in the middle of the street with their backs to traffic, ear buds in with tunes blasting.

7. Jesus is the Christ.

8. If you can't take regular Freshman classes, don't attend college.

9. Rick Perry should be tarred and feathered and rode out of Texas on a rail!

10. 70 doesn't feel much different that 69 . . . but a whole lot different than 30.