JP

Forgive me.

This is one of my favorite John Prine songs.

UH . . .

CELEBRATING QUIETLY

It's a big day for SWMBO and I.

Yes, it's our 49th wedding anniversary.

Our good friend, Timmer, sent us an email noting the exact number of days and, later, I found the picture above on the web.

Here's the proof.

It seems like a long time ago, seen through a haze in the far off distance of yesteryear.

Well, no, it wasn't quite that long ago.

I have no photograph of the first day of our married life together.

The earliest is this photo, taken a short time later outside our home in Indianapolis.

Yeah, I know what you're thinkin': "Wow, what a natty dresser."

Or not.

We've had a life probably a lot like any others' with some ups and some downs.

But we've always tried to have fun.

This is the goofy couple at a Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve celebration when we lived in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987.

Like everyone else, through the years we have aged.

Surely I jest.

But we have traded our darker hair color for the silver of advanced years.

I've told Judy, "Just one more year.  Then you can do whatever you want."

But in the meantime . .

Love yuh, darlin'.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

THIS IS WHAT A LEADER LOOKS LIKE

HELP IS ON THE WAY

LEAN ON ME

The man who wrote the song "Lean on Me", Bill Withers, died of heart complications recently.

It was ironic because the song has been taken up as a hymn to the selflessness of health care workers and first responders in this era of the Covid-19 virus.

I heard the following version awhile back and offer it up again today to remember Withers and salute those on the front lines of this battle.