The sun was just shining and then I heard rain! Then came the storms! I love storms!
Mom tell them, my friends, Birthday is Sick! I’m hoping she feels better because her friends planned a surprise party @midnight! I’m doing my best to help her feel better! 😄💗
In those clouds that swirl of pinks & grays,
sometimes helping lost ones find their way
Makes me humble He has spared me trouble,
set me free in so many ways
Next time I’m feeling life screaming very loud
I think I’ll look up with kindred spirits to the clouds
Gunner Timothy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjfkwvOOA
When my Pa got home from work I practiced a lot, but actually I got lost in the music. My Pa would change into his shorts or jeans, get a beer sit down, lay his head back and if I stopped playing he said, “Micki play Greensleeves.” I learned all the lyrics, because sometimes my Pa, he would sing. I loved those evenings.
My Pa went to college on a voice scholarship, he sang tenor, and sometimes I thought I heard Angels singing with him. He gave that up when the draft came and he enlisted. Gave up his music for this country. Why do we give our music away? Well it’s because although we love it, we also love and believe in something or someone and it’s worth the sacrifice. I was just thinking about that tonight.
I get lost in the music! Something I have not ever shared and play down is that I was a pianist. I grew up playing, somehow the baby grand I grew up playing got sold in my parent’s divorce, I came home one day from school and it was gone, I lost my music that day.
When I got old enough to buy my own piano I paid $800.00 for an old payer piano that was converted into an upright. One day I came home from work and Alex’s dad decided it was in the way and he gave it away. Some preacher at a church needed it and since I didn’t play it much, cause you know I was taking care of Alex, he thought it would be good to give it to the church. I was thinking about that tonight, how folks can just give away your music, your stuff like it’s nothing. I’m not sad about it because I have a huge collection of music I listen to everyday. I have a keyboard, but it’s not the same as sitting in front of a gigantic piano and playing. I love the smell of the wood, I love how the oil smells when it is freshly tuned, I love how the peddles feel when I press them, I love to watch the key stoppers, raise from under the lid as I play! I love playing chop-sticks. My gosh that is so much fun when I find someone that can play with me while I pretend to be Liberace on the other end. So silly when I think of it. I lost my music, I did. I come from a musical family, and somehow I put all that aside to be a wife and mom, but you know I miss it sometimes, like tonight.
Below is me when I just turned 7 playing. I’ve shared this before but not this part.
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