Another year older

“Another year older and deeper in debt…”I wonder if Merle Travis was thinking of the year 2008 when he wrote those words for Tennesee Ernie Ford to wail out. Im not into country music at all but any type of music I hear I remember. Sometimes people don’t say what they want to, can’t get the words out, but when they put it too music sometimes the feeling is overwhelming.

Music has been so important to me over the years. I’m taken back almost daily by the whispering voices of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Carly, Bob Segar, Rod Stewart, oh damn…on and on with Jonathan Edwards etc.(listening to Jackson Browne right now)so many stories, so many relationships, so many memories.

Back in 2004 I bought myself a six string steel string. No clue how to play(and still don’t really) but I could see myself sitting around the campfire, sitting in the park….just playing tunes. bringing people together.

When I’m challenged, 9 times out of 10 I rise above and beyond the challenge and I have challenged myself. You will see me i9n the park plucking my ass off. I will be around the campfire banging some Grateful Dead out. Its gonna happen, time is on my side.

Is that what is called a resolution? I hear of so many promises people make to themselves and watch them turn into broken promises in a few months.

Every year on December 31st I make sure I’m at Planet Fitness to watch the show. Its funny to watch. Today they had three people behind the desk and each had a line of 3-4 deep. (usually they have one person behind) Every machine in the place was filled with sometimes 2-3 people waiting. Fitness clubs are a great place to go on December 31st if your single!…lol

90% of the ‘newbies’ made a resolution. They will hang around for a while but starting next week numbers will drop, steady off in March and pick up slightly for the spring/summer. Broken promises…geesh.

So lets see:

1) Learn accoustic

2) Play catch with my two boys at Graduation. Never played catch with them but damn they make their Dad so proud and I think they are proud of their Dad

3) Waltz with my daughter. When she was a year old we were in Alabama (USAF) and my wife was at work while I had the day off. It was something like Percy Sledge Day.(He was from Alabama and wrote “when a man loves a woman”). I cranked the stereo and pickerd up my daughter and we waltzed to that tune. Priceless.

4) Purchase a trike. Been wanting to ride for yeares and years, always had an eye out. Well, probably gonna cost me but dammit I’m getting older and I want to travel some. See folks in Florida,Idaho, Texas

4) Much more research on Ataxia. Thats my number 1 resolution. Always has been and always will be. I’ll take more vitamins, work harder at the Gym,new meds, new doctors, a quest I don’t really need to make a resolution for,its a part of my life now and we have to play the cards we’re dealt

5) M0re and more concerts!

6) Get out more…re-connect with friends!

The country as a whole has had it rough, we have all been shoved. But I feel I’m starting to rise.

We can all make accusations about what this new Administration will do, not much there. Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conseravatives-does it really matter?

Stick to your resolutions, pray for our country….things WILL get better if you do these things

These things will make me happy therefore they are mine and will occur

Happy New Year Everyone!