Posted 8-30-19 Hi all! Welcome back to the Digital Cornbread table this threshold day of the long Labor Day weekend! Be careful out there on the roads this weekend! I am going to revisit one aspect of mom today that I have addressed before, but if you are to know her, you need this one:…
Tag: music
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
Posted 8-2-19 SignsThe 5 Man Electrical Bandlyrics as recorded by The Five Man Electrical Band in 1971 And the sign said “Long-haired freaky people need not apply”So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him whyHe said “You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you’ll…
The Pompousless Circumstances Surrounding Mom & the Sweet 17
Posted Graduation Day, 5-19-19 This weekend marks(ed) graduation weekend for hundreds of thousands of high school and college students throughout this great land. Long speeches and visions of wild success and grandeur (or perhaps freedom) streamed like Netflix reruns throughout football fields and gyms everywhere. One thing is also for certain: The familiar-to-Americans-part of “Pomp…
The True Virtuoso
Posted 5-8-19 while tapping my toes… A handful of dust, a worthless piece of clayAnd you breathed the breath of HeavenThen there was a soul, the heart, the hands, the voiceThat could sing of your perfection Life is a symphonyThat only you can playYou know I can hear itThrough the madness everyday (Chorus) Virtuoso, virtuosoThis…
I Lost My Music
Posted 4-18-19 I had a really nice visit with mom today, albeit a tad earlier in the day than normal. I hit the traditional nappy time for most of the Sweet 17, right after lunch as their mush piles have had time to settle hearts and stomachs. When I got there, three princesses were asleep…
“O Holy Nights” to Come
Posted 4-10-19 Yes, I’m THAT guy. I am still listening to Christmas music on April 10th. My only wish is that Easter music was so widely created. (I do love several traditional Easter songs too, such as “He’s Alive”, “Because He Lives” and “He Arose” to name a few). It is amazing and it brings…
My Music Theory
Posted 3-2-19 Ok. This is a weird post. Please don’t use the following to evaluate my mental health. You have enough other material for that (my shared memes alone is enough fodder)…give this one a pass. Here it goes: My unusual and unfortunately flawed hypothesis/thought regarding Alzheimer’s patient communication: I wonder if anyone has ever…
Happy Place
Posted 2-26-19 Another good day for mom. 🙂 She still needs to get the sleep worked out again, but all things considered, it could be much worse.Music is mom’s happy place, planted there by the subject of her songs. #EndALZ