He wore an orange t-shirt to drive this white flat bed truck east into the city of Milwaukee. Only 7:45 AM, the driver had a delivery to make before noon. A jointed mechanical arm extended backward, over the cab and set the claw bucket on the truck bed safely to the side of the cargo. Like the driver, the mechanical arm had a job to do this morning, and it would do it well as it was built for one purpose; dig a six foot deep hole in the earth, wide enough and level enough for a crypt.
This machine had a full day of work ahead because on that flat bed truck road two adult size gold painted crypts to hold caskets. At the foot of the adult crypts rode obediently, three child size crypts painted bronze. Three months ago it was Christmas and this family celebrated. In one week it will be Easter.Surely there are Easter baskets the friends and family members would prefer to fill over these crypts.
I'm going to wonder about that family of five I passed on the highway and never met. Peace family of five.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
Life is too short to have sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow....go on and live.
Music is a magic carpet. Songs are aromas to our ears. Baking bread takes me to 1966 in a Grandmother's kitchen. Outboard motor exhaust puts me in a boat on lake with my dad. Aaron Neville puts me horizontal looking out a window at new leafs on branches swaying in the warm breeze of spring, May 2005.
It's a dark March night ten years removed from the early spring days when I cried myself to sleep day or night to Aaron Neville. All I have to hear is the start of a song, his voice high, deep, resonating, A Change is Gonna Come. Oh it's been a long time comin, but I know change is gonna come. I can still hear the tears hit next to my ear on the pillow. It Feels Like Rain. Just like a hurricane, and it feels like rain...clouds roll in across the moon...and it feels like rain. (This guys voice is mellow clear) Batten down the hatches...it looks like we're in for stormy weather....let it wash away the pain, and it feels like rain. Baby can you feel it? Let your love fall down on me.
Don't Take Away My Heaven. If you ever say goodbye, I couldn't stand the pain...and the sun would have no were to shine. Baby please, don't take away my heaven. To Make Me Who I Am. I always was a dreamer...traveled some crooked roads...fallen on my knees to God...but it took me who I was and where I've been to make me who I am. The Grand Tour. Step right up if you'd like to take the grand tour...some things to tell you that will chill you to the bone. Now she's gone forever and this old house will never be the same without the love that we once knew. And the clothes are in the closet...left me without mercy...Step Right Up. Come on in.
Warm Your Heart. Well we're all searching for peace of mind...walk with me. Hold my hand and warm your heart. Amazing Grace. How sweet the sound. Even if My Heart Would Break. I never want to let you go. Stand by Me.When the night has come...and the moon is the only light I see...I won't be afraid....just as long as you stand by me...I won't cry and I won't shed a tear. So darlin darlin stand by me. Stand by Me was a favorite movie of Aaron's. I'm sure I cried my eyes out.
Somewhere in the middle of the beautifully sad, reflective songs on came You Never Can Tell. It was a teenage wedding....goes to show you never can tell...the coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale..seven hundred little records all of them rhythm and jazz. I would listen to hear the words. I'd heard the song, Chuck Berry I think, but never zeroed in on the words. I wonder if they put this song in because even grief needs a timeout,
That's the way it was so long ago forever now. If life is a book for me, Aaron Neville's voice turns the pages back. Tell It Like It Is.
Music is a magic carpet. Songs are aromas to our ears. Baking bread takes me to 1966 in a Grandmother's kitchen. Outboard motor exhaust puts me in a boat on lake with my dad. Aaron Neville puts me horizontal looking out a window at new leafs on branches swaying in the warm breeze of spring, May 2005.
It's a dark March night ten years removed from the early spring days when I cried myself to sleep day or night to Aaron Neville. All I have to hear is the start of a song, his voice high, deep, resonating, A Change is Gonna Come. Oh it's been a long time comin, but I know change is gonna come. I can still hear the tears hit next to my ear on the pillow. It Feels Like Rain. Just like a hurricane, and it feels like rain...clouds roll in across the moon...and it feels like rain. (This guys voice is mellow clear) Batten down the hatches...it looks like we're in for stormy weather....let it wash away the pain, and it feels like rain. Baby can you feel it? Let your love fall down on me.
Don't Take Away My Heaven. If you ever say goodbye, I couldn't stand the pain...and the sun would have no were to shine. Baby please, don't take away my heaven. To Make Me Who I Am. I always was a dreamer...traveled some crooked roads...fallen on my knees to God...but it took me who I was and where I've been to make me who I am. The Grand Tour. Step right up if you'd like to take the grand tour...some things to tell you that will chill you to the bone. Now she's gone forever and this old house will never be the same without the love that we once knew. And the clothes are in the closet...left me without mercy...Step Right Up. Come on in.
Warm Your Heart. Well we're all searching for peace of mind...walk with me. Hold my hand and warm your heart. Amazing Grace. How sweet the sound. Even if My Heart Would Break. I never want to let you go. Stand by Me.When the night has come...and the moon is the only light I see...I won't be afraid....just as long as you stand by me...I won't cry and I won't shed a tear. So darlin darlin stand by me. Stand by Me was a favorite movie of Aaron's. I'm sure I cried my eyes out.
Somewhere in the middle of the beautifully sad, reflective songs on came You Never Can Tell. It was a teenage wedding....goes to show you never can tell...the coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale..seven hundred little records all of them rhythm and jazz. I would listen to hear the words. I'd heard the song, Chuck Berry I think, but never zeroed in on the words. I wonder if they put this song in because even grief needs a timeout,
That's the way it was so long ago forever now. If life is a book for me, Aaron Neville's voice turns the pages back. Tell It Like It Is.
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