old friends
Posted By Mauri on April 10, 2006
Okay, long-time friends. Maybe you’ve known people who stayed near their roots most of their lives and kept close contact with good friends. And maybe you’ve envied that…like I have. Much of my life had a vagabond quality…living here and there for two or three years. Here is the refrain from an old unfinished song…it’s a little waltz.
Too many places, so many places I’ve gone
Too many faces, so many people I’ve known
Have become all the same, I’ve forgotten their names
Even though they were loved, now they’re gone
Too many faces in so many places and nowhere for me to belong
Then more than twenty-five years ago we were led to a place to stay a while, and give our children roots…and long-time connection with good friends is only one of the happy outcomes.
This week, three old…okay, long-time friends came over and we sang for a while. It was great fun just to hang out, with the singing/recording as a bonus. From time to time I’ll post some of the tunes we did on the music page.
I’ve just spent a little time browsing through your blog (Is that kinda like tiptoing through the tulips?) and really enjoyed it. Enjoyed the song! By the way, the politically correct term for “OLD” is “chronologically enhanced”. Glad you stayed around here long enough for me to make it here.
Hey Mauri…Thanks for posting the Quatet songs. It was a great evening that I would love to do again…if we could come up with some more songs to sing. I would even spring for the pizza again. Faye and I enjoy your website. Enjoyed your story about the seat belt Sherry. Faye just asked me to show her how to retrieve her voice mail on her cell phone for the 23rd time. She has owned the phone for over 2 years. Makes me feel important, needed and intelligent…doesn’t take much. See ya…B