Well, not really. It’s going to be a crazy busy evening at the train station.

12 hours from now, I will be utterly exhausted.

Yesterday was intense, sad, frustrating. Right before I left the house, the lawyer handling my dad’s Estate called to get some information. The call was fine, but it just opened everything up in me and got all the emotions going and I had to leave the house in that frame of mind.

It did not get better from there. But on we go.

There’s nothing but Charlie’s update for today.

Enjoy your Friday, gang, wherever you are in the world, okay?

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya.

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I’ve posted this song here before but I didn’t post the history of it. I first discovered this song in the 70s, in a book of popular sheet music for the piano. I started playing it and I really liked the song…. Until my mother came down to the family room with one of her ugly faces on and said that I was never to play that song in the house again.

So then, of course, I became privately fascinated with the song.

As I got older, I eventually realized it was the veritable blueprint for my dad’s leaving her. It was basically uncanny.

Lately, I have been listening to the song a lot in the car. That feeling, like, it’s 50 years later, my mom is dead, I have my own life and can play the song whenever I want to, as loud as I want to!

And on the day that I drove down to say goodbye to my dad, the song was playing over and over in my head. Even though he was unconscious when I said goodbye to him, I sang him this song really quietly. Like it was HIS song and he was entitled to it. ❤️ Play it loud. Enjoy, gang.