The Rain Didn't Come .....
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though it wanted too. The unseen sun and haze in the sky conspired to wash my place on the globe with a grey pall that left the ground shadowless.
Today wasn't like yesterday. Today won't be like tomorrow.
Jokes weren't as funny, they were merely amusing statements.
Food had lost some of it's flavor, nothing more than sustenance.
Music lost it's power, today it was just a diversion.
I know the reason, but I won't say it.
The love I gave to my family today was some of the sweetest all year. Today there were more kisses and hugs. Kisses and hugs to last a life time.
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I felt it too...
I'm glad you didn't take the day off.
Me too.
gotta say I did say why, and my class listened. They knew what I was talking about meant something to me, I still remember watching it unfold before me in my classroom years before
Kev, your not too young to remember the Space Shuttle Challenger in '86?
And now the rain comes.
I guess I am confused, didnt that take place in January 28? Maybe I am missing something here, and if I am I am sorry. As for 86, I can tell you exactly where I was when I saw it happen. I had gotten all my work complete in 7th grade civics class. Mr. Pisa asked me if I wanted to go to the library to watch the shuttle take off. I was excited, and sat down with about 15 other students to see it happen. I remember thinking, what now? While the staff around me cried. I think I was too young to understand what really happened because in all reality I did not think the entire crew had been killed.
it's literally been raining hard in Phnom Penh all week. first time i've had to bring a hoodie out in almost 2 years. funny i don't remember it being this way in Sept/Oct last year. oh, cuz i was away in Bangkok. unknowingly skipped the rain. that explains it.
new Beck sounding good.
Your not confused at all. I caught that between English and Math.
I was in the Library with about 20 other kids and staff.
It was like a punch in the chest.
Ilay, This is the day I have nothing witty to say.
This is a surprise track for me. I'm really digging it.
Don't you have a monsoon season or something? Rains like hell than the next season it rains a little less like hell, and the next season it barely rains at all.
Lyrics if your interested in singing along.
Orphans lyrics
(feat. Cat Power)
Think I'm stranded but I don't know where
I got this diamond that don't know how to shine
In the sun where these dark winds wail
And these children leave their rulers behind
As we cross ten leagues from a Rubicon
With matchsticks for my bones
If we could learn how to freeze ourselves alive
We could learn to leave these burdens to burn
Cast out these creatures of woe
Who shattered themselves
Fighting a fire with your bare hands
Now my journey takes me further south
I want to hear what the blind men sing
With their fossils and their gypsy bones
I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone
And how can I new again
What rusts every time it rains?
And the rain it comes and floods our lungs
We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake
If I wake up and see my maker coming
With all of his crimson and his iron desire
We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing
To be loved or destroyed
From a void to a grain of sand in your hand
One more thing Ilay, your an internationalist and I don't think you even know it.
How cool is that?
My 8th graders felt it, too. They watched a video in Social Studies, and I could tell it really got to them. They would've been about 6 at the time, and I would imagine don't feel the connection to it. It's more history to them in many ways than a fact of life today, except for the fact that so many of their families are still affected, with relatives still over there.
You mean in Iraq Chuck?
no one's asking for witty, Chris. we've got rain and we've got sun, that's what i grew up with.
heavy stuff, those lyrics. MOG thanks you for sharing.
an internationalist by decision, don't i know it.
well, good night/noon, folkz!
Well right on then.
And I know you know that I know you know. Ya know?
Hope your dinner is interesting.
Iraq, Afghanistan, and other points connected.
How close are you to Fayetteville?
About three hours, according to mapquest. Not too far up I-95. Why?
You mentioned relatives.
Did your Natioal Guard get called up?
Yeah. I'm not sure how many or which units. I do know that our new 7th grade administrator is National Guard, and he just got back from a long stint in Afghanistan. At the beginning of the year I asked my students how many had family over in the middle east, and I would say at least a third raised their hands. I don't know how much was immediate family, though. We have an Air Force Base here in Charleston, too, but I think most of what they do is more support, flying supplies band and forth.
Bethlehem just sent a team of sniper to Iraq.
If things are going so well why the team of snipers?
Huh. Good question. Maybe they have some intel on where some Most Wanteds might be hiding out?
And the madness continues. Oh for the time when no man nor woman takes up arms against another. Meanwhile, it's always a good day to cherish your loved ones...
Mike - Everyday is a good day to cherish loved ones.
I couldn't listen to music for like 3 weeks after 9/11, and I couldn't go to work either 'cause the office I worked at was in the "zone"..My son was born 2 months before, but I didn't even know him yet. cool post.
I still remember where I was and what I was doing as the rain fell... True soulful choice for a commemoration.
Thanks Micheal, Are you back or just popping in.
At any rate it's good to see you.