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Sorry, not the classic episode of Star Trek.
There’s a quote, and of course I can’t find it at the moment, something along the lines of “if you keep having problems with everyone and everything, maybe it’s really you.”
yeah, it’s me, so now what?
Squirrel!
And no, the title is not a reference to Bob Geldof or a favorite song of mine.
But, it could be, so go ahead and hum along.
We were driving the other day, and there were a bunch of cones by the road and people directing traffic because the annual half marathon was happening. My daughter (always observant) said “They’re running, like Daddy used to.”
Of course, she won’t stop there, she went on with “Why did Daddy quit?”
I was trying to drive so I didn’t say anything right away, but my wife responded with something along the lines of ‘he got busy doing other things.’
She would have been more accurate to just say “He’s a quitter. He quits everything, or does it half-assed. He quit running, he quit cycling, he quit trying to build a real career, he quit his diet. It’s probably only a matter of time before he quits all of us, too. The only good thing he has quit was smoking.”
But she couldn’t say that, because that would be admitting to my kids that you can smoke and not die or burst into flames.
Tell me why?
I don’t like Mondays.
This is a little slice of my childhood.
I bought the album, ‘Get the Knack,’ on 8-track from the bargin bin at Target. (I’ll wait here if you want to google that, or ask your parents, or whatever). It had the classic, My Sharona, along with another of my faves, Good Girls Don’t (we always sang loudest on the ‘but I do’ part).
One of our favorite things to do was turn this up really, really loud and dance around on our patio like idiots. Thank God Al Gore hadn’t invented Youtube yet, or there would be actual evidence.
Being a bargain 8-track and not having google back in the day (we were lucky if the mastadons didn’t knock out the power, ya know?) I had no idea that this song was about an actual girl named Sharona and that she was about my age, even though the singer / writer was clearly older because he had a hit song and everything. In fact I never even bothered to find out in all these years. It turns out Sharona was at his side this weekend.
R.I.P. Doug.
Doug Fieger, lead singer for The Knack and co-writer of My Sharona, passed away on Sunday at the age of 57.
The other day we’re singing in church, a song that we don’t sing very often but I used to back when I was a kid, and for a minute I had the calmest feeling come over me.
And as I’m writing this I’m tempted to write something like “intensely calm” because it was that much of a departure from the way I normally am.
And then I started overthinking it and wondering “I wonder if this is what it’s like for other people? Is this is how church is supposed to make you feel?”
And then it was gone, and I was back to normal, whatever that is. My usual self, full of doubts and worries and fears and horrible black oily stuff that – oh, wait, no, that was on a movie I saw. Anyway, my usual self.
The self that I pretty much hate. But I’m thinking maybe if I keep going to church for another 40 years, I’ll get a moment like that again.
We’ll see.
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