What I’m Not Gonna Miss!

Well hi there, friends and neighbours! I know it’s been a while, but here we are together again at last, me writin’, and you readin’. I hope. 😄

Actually I’m just going to share something with you I hope you’ll like. It’s been a busy time lately for me and my hubby John – appointments galore, his doctors, speech therapy, physiotherapy, exercise classes, you name it – the fun never stops in Parkinson’s-land! 🙄 😀

But we still manage to laugh in between and around all that stuff.

Meanwhile – meanwhile, I must tell you that I have done something I haven’t done in many years, and I’m rather proud of it. I wrote a new song. Those who know me, are aware that I wrote many songs back in the ’80s and ’90s, and then kind of stopped. Life got in the way and I got busy with other things.

But I got inspired just a few days ago and prodded myself to start writing. And song lyrics fell out of me, I guess you could say. It’s very personal – it references the fact that I’m not young anymore – and then it just, well, got caught up in what’s going on out there.

I didn’t have a tune for it, but I sent the lyrics off to my son Jeremy (yes, the Emmy-winning editor, that Jeremy 😉) who also happens to be a whiz with sound and music computer apps. Well: pretty soon he sent me my song back – as a song.

Both John and I were blown away. First, my lyrics. I’ll paste them here:

What I’m Not Gonna Miss

I don’t wanna die
I’ll miss too much!
Inventions in science,
Space travel and such

Family and friends,
Cats and dogs
Playgrounds of my past
And falling off logs

I love all of life
A hug and a kiss,
But I’m gonna tell ya
What I’m not gonna miss:

Politics!! —

Crazy talk,
Hatin’ and yellin’!
Nobody askin’
‘n’ too many tellin’

We need more doctors,
Food for the poor
Safety for kids
‘n’ water that’s pure

So no more fightin’!
No more blood spilled,
No more child soldiers,
Babies, mothers, gettin’ killed

I’m not ready yet
If the Grim Reaper comes by
I want only love
In the world when I die

All this chaos and strife
And slaughter must cease
I’ll be ready to leave
When we finally have peace

And this is the song, courtesy of my son Jeremy and his music app.