A Time of Reminiscing...A Time In A Bottle

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Perhaps some days are meant for reminiscing. While doing some work today in my garage/man-cave, I find myself listening to three CD’s that are within my excellent $15 find of a ‘boom box’ off Craigslist. All three of the CD’s are ones that became mine four years ago while tending to my father’s estate down in Mexico. Those days in itself are worth a blog or two for another day.

What I find amazingly ironic is that even when these men (father and son) who were very much like oil and water, there are some things of similarity. Such are these CD’s that include music we both greatly enjoyed. There’s ‘Chicago’ with ‘Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?’ Or there is Elton John and his song ‘Daniel’…a side story…I’m a young teenager driving with dad, Ione, Christina and Tami toward Northern California to go camping. Along the way we picked up some black cherries, to which yours truly had a dozen or two to many. While ‘Daniel’ was playing on the car radio I found myself needing to get to the side of the road immediately. Now, some forty years later, whenever I hear ‘Daniel’ on the radio I think of cherries, or when I eat cherries I’m reminded of the song ‘Daniel’.

The last CD plays, a remake of both Don McLean and Jim Croce. Jim’s song ‘Time In A Bottle’ is likely legendary…               

                                If I could save time in a bottle
                                The first thing that I'd like to do
                                Is to save every day till eternity passes away
                                Just to spend them with you

    If I could make days last forever
                If words could make wishes come true
                I'd save every day like a treasure and then
                Again, I would spend them with you

                But there never seems to be enough time
                To do the things you want to do, once you find them
                I've looked around enough to know
                That you're the one I want to go through time with

                If I had a box just for wishes
                And dreams that had never come true
                The box would be empty, except for the memory of how
                They were answered by you

                But there never seems to be enough time
                To do the things you want to do, once you find them
                I've looked around enough to know
                That you're the one I want to go through time with  Jim Croce

Perhaps each of us can peek into the recesses of our memory to find even a glimmer of joy in relationships which we wish the journey had a different outcome.

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For now… “I thinks it gonna be a long, long time…now who wrote that?