Seasons in the sun

11-21-23
What song are you most grateful for?
Impossible Question.
Because throughout my seasons of life I have always loved music and songs have been there through all my highs and lows, but not just one song. There are a few certain songs though that seem to follow and haunt me all through my life. As early as I can remember my parents played records and the radio and such tv shows as Hee Haw and the Lawrence Welk Show. My Dad sang while he drove and they were often sings with a story and an unfortunate tendency to be stereotypical Indian stories like “Running Bear” and “Kowliga” and “Son, don’t go near the Indians”
Mom danced in the kitchen while doing the dishes. The Twist and my breakfast went together. Then the man I fell for, needed a ride to practice in the evenings for Godspell, and so I answered the ad asking for someone to carpool with. The chemistry major soon realized his energy was recharged by drama and music and became the Mr. Goode most of you know, music teacher extraordinaire.
When I started teaching preschool and had my two boys I fell in love with the music of Bev Bos, Raffi, and Kenny Loggins, and had a blast doing Baby Beluga endlessly.
But one sing, maybe the first song I loved that I didn’t learn from my parents, that I still find myself singing as I drive is the sad, but beautiful and wise, song by Terry Jacks, “Seasons in the sun”

“We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
We’re just starfish on the beach

All our lives we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
were just seasons out of time

And the wine and the song
Like the seasons
Have all gone”

[carol white]

Beautiful.Fav😊

[John Falconer]

Great photograph especially with the well placed bird.
I’ll have to think about my song though.

[Joan Robillard]

GOrgeous

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful.

[Beverley]

Oh wow! What a beautiful captivating read.
Music transports you back to moments of your life, we are lucky enough to re-live.
It’s a song close to my heart too.
Beautiful photo… stunning 🤩