My Christmas Gift to You
I had the best night sleep last night I have had in a week and my post this morning will be a fairly short one while I prepare for tomorrow's post which which was inspired by the Christmas gift I was given yesterday.
The wondering star in me has always been a little hard to keep in check and writing has done wonders for that, but what I discovered yesterday in the conversation last night with Mario and David was a priceless gift that made me realize how important it is I stay focused on what Buzzy calls the magic.
I was going to post a video by Rick Nelson, "Garden Party", and a lesson he learned about what happens when you start trying to please someone else and how it can mess things up. I decided to save it.
That is what happened to me yesterday and it took away the magic and the gift was having people like Mario and David to help get me instantly back on track. Most communicators would never be so fortunate and that made me realize I needed to give this more than just a few hours to gel in my mind.
I want to give you a gift in song this morning while I let the right words come to me. I wish I had given you this to you yesterday on Christmas Day.
Merry Christmas my friends!
The wondering star in me has always been a little hard to keep in check and writing has done wonders for that, but what I discovered yesterday in the conversation last night with Mario and David was a priceless gift that made me realize how important it is I stay focused on what Buzzy calls the magic.
I was going to post a video by Rick Nelson, "Garden Party", and a lesson he learned about what happens when you start trying to please someone else and how it can mess things up. I decided to save it.
That is what happened to me yesterday and it took away the magic and the gift was having people like Mario and David to help get me instantly back on track. Most communicators would never be so fortunate and that made me realize I needed to give this more than just a few hours to gel in my mind.
I want to give you a gift in song this morning while I let the right words come to me. I wish I had given you this to you yesterday on Christmas Day.
Merry Christmas my friends!
Perhaps I should have told the story behind this video when I posted it, but this video has a certain characteristic to it that is similar to Ronnie Parsley passing away during our reunion and Phillip Long sitting in the car four weeks before his death and saying "I've got too much living too do."
I suppose I am just letting superstition get the best of me so I need to get over it. This is just too beautiful not to share.
This video was recorded August 19, 1980. I have been collecting Harry Chapin videos for a long time and have over 40 of them. This is the last known video I have ever been able to find and recorded 11 months before his death. It was an encore after a terrific concert at Hamilton Hall in Hamilton, Ontario where he sang nearly every song he had ever wrote. The crowd had been spectacular and his voice was beginning to fail. Harry was exhausted and he came back out on the stage for one last curtain call.
In effect . . . this was Harry Chapin's "Good Bye".
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I can't say I really appreciated Harry Chapin until you started writing about him, David. He was really a consummate singer, songwriter, and performer. Thanks for sharing all this about him. A little research reveals he was quite the activist too. Such a loss that he died so young.
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