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Morning Open Thread - Gift of Life tributes [1]

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Date: 2024-03-21  

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The first song in this diary was released in 1974. I had just graduated from High School and was leaving my home and youth behind with this as my anthem. Four years later I had a newborn son. This song had an entirely different message for me.

The year the next song was released (1980) my son was ready to enter the world. I felt that John Lennon had captured all the emotions I had and adopted a new anthem to attach to the emotion of having a new life to look forward to.

My younger brother’s son was born four years later and was so connected to John Lennon’s song that he named his son Sean.

When my nephew married and was expecting his first child, the next song had been out a few years. Zac Brown had captured the feelings my nephew had for my brother. When I learned that there was a new anthem circulating within the family, I understood my own father better. Dad and I began to reconnect as adults beginning to strike up a friendship.

These days, I think back to another song I heard before I graduated High School. I thought Neil Young had defined the commonalities between me and my Dad in 1972. Now, I just feel like an anthem was written then to define my life now.

I hope my son, grandson (and rumor of a possible great-grandson) will find music that makes sense to them.

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When I took this photo 2 years ago, I felt I had witnesses something important. The full moon was setting over a lake and the sun was rising behind me. I was alone and yet the world (as big as it ever had been) felt like a second skin that included me in it’s beauty.

Let’s have a great Spring day and share in the gifts of Life by paying tribute.

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