Be set free to sing or hum along

Childish Things. I  find myself today thinking of childish things. I used to know everything. I cannot put a finger on when it was that I knew so much. My mind or the muse that sometimes whispers to me says it was when I was twenty-two. Maybe. It must have been around that time that I topped Pompous Mountain.

I know far less now. I know well that by the time I was twenty-four, everything that I believed I had known with such certainty had become suspect.    

I remember coming apart. Everything looked fine on the outside, or close to it. But I was coming apart.  At least a few people who knew me and loved me could see it and held onto me in whatever ways they could. I am grateful for them.   

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Imperfections. I awoke today thinking about imperfections. I do a number of things quite well, but I cannot think of anything I do in which I would dream to claim that I achieve perfection. Yet, were I honest, I would say that there are at least a couple of particularly important things that I very much wish to do but put off, waiting for this ever-elusive and mystical thing, perfection. If you are thinking what I am thinking, you are wanting to tell me that I am going to run out of time. You are right. True words.

One of my favorite movies is Waterwalker by Bill Mason. You can watch it on YouTube or on nfb.ca. It is a wonderful film. Bruce Cockburn did the soundtrack (Apple / Spotify).

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For whatever reason, for far too long, I have been miserly in many things. Let me become one who shares and shares bravely. Let me become one who is more concerned with what I can give than with what I can receive. May any lives that I am given opportunity to touch be better and even blessed for the contact. If I am given a kind word to offer to another, let me offer it. When I am given bread, let me break and share it. If I am given a song, let me sing it. May I ever continue to be given songs.

Be invited to join in with your best tambourine, harmonica, squeezebox, etc. I am playing and singing this one in G.