Winding, Crooked Trails

Shared Expressions and Musings with a Connection to the Origin of Things and a Surly Hatred of Progress and Development along with a Churlish Resistance to all Popular Improvements (except for HDTV and Dolby 5:1 surround sound and maybe Books on CD) (thanks Ed)

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

I Shall be Released

I have this Dylan song on my brain. I ordered a Jerry Garcia Band DVD from the Jerry Garcia online store a couple of weeks ago.......JGB live at Shoreline, 9/1/90 and it's so, so terrific. For those of you who may not know, JG had a couple of bands outside the GD and this particular band is fabulous. Some gospels, a little Motown, some Dylan........magic stuff. Just Jerry and his feathery sweet licks and a massive joyous Black man on the organ, two female backup singers....I love female backup singers and they are usually these wonderful Black women all stylish and smiling and moving their arms and hands and swaying in unison. A bass player and a drummer, that's it. Beautiful stuff.

They say ev'ry man needs protection,
They say ev'ry man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.
Yeah, my light comes shining from the west these days.

Hey Rach....I never finished my little foray into stalker fiction. I need to do that and I think I'll give it a shot soon. Thanks for asking.

I'm sick of the problems I have with yahoo mail so I'm switching over to gmail..... for those of you so inclined or with whom I regularly or irregularly communicate.

Yesterday was day two of number two daughter's birthday celebration. Dinner at X1's. Twenty-first century family, the X and I and the girls and SIL and the grand daughters and the boy. But it works and we laughed and loved those girls and young Edge is comfortable in that situation and on the way home he told me "shit for brains" as he so affectionately calls his mother's gigi....er husband, is on his last nerve and I may see him change his address soon as he needs the laidbackness we have here. Wouldn't be a big change since he's here half the time anyway. He drives to and from now, how cool is that. Every tuesday and wednesday when I get home from work his car is in the driveway. Every tuesday and wednesday for 10 years now. For over ten years with the girls it was every tuesday and thursday....always overnight, none of this three hour bullshit. You can't parent in three hour shifts.

I have this work thing today with a big customer. Companies coming in from all over the country, meeting at a hotel to hear about a new business opportunity. I'll know more people there than even the customer will and I have my black power suit and creamy white shirt with the red tie all ready to don. This is what I do, sit me at a desk and I'll blog and email on ya all day. Dinner tonight and I love when they have an open bar cause after about half an hour you can find pick their brains apart and keep the useful stuff for later. Amazing what people will spill along with their third cocktail. I'll miss you all today though and you can bet I'll be checking my phone for email.

You people are an addiciton you know.

Yeah, my light comes shining from the west.