Category: Memories
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Lockdown
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“I’m in a lockdownI’m in a lockdownAin’t nobody else aroundI’m in a lockdownLockdown Got no feverGot no shakesGotta watch my backWhatever it takesGot a face maskAnd some rubber glovesI’m washing my clothesIn an old bathtub I’m in a lockdownI’m in a lockdownKeep my head close to the groundI’m in a lockdownLockdown Keeping my distanceAt least six feetAnd I’m microwavingEverything…
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In My Family
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“That’s how it’s gonna be, in my familyFrom the biggest branch to the smallest leafStill you’re gonna see similarity…In my family, that’s how it’s gonna beFamily- It’s like any other familyBig and small- It’s like any other family” I’ve always been fascinated by genealogy. When I started researching my family…
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Hello Old Friend
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“An old man passed me on the street todayI thought I knew him but I couldn’t sayI stopped to think if I could place his frameWhen he tipped his hat I knew his nameHello old friend(Hello old friend)It’s really good to see you once againHello old friend(Hello old friend)Really good…
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We May Never Pass This Way Again
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“Life, so they say, is but a game and they’d let it slip away…Like Columbus in the olden days, we must gather all our courage.Sail our ships out on the open seas, cast away our fearsand all the years will come and go…We may never pass this way again”– Seals…
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We are the World
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“There comes a time when we heed a certain callWhen the world must come together as one…We are the world, we are the childrenWe are the ones who make a brighter daySo let’s start giving” In my position in Worldwide Product Safety with the Merck pharmaceutical company, I got to…
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Time Waits for No One
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“Yes, star crossed in pleasure the stream flows on byYes, as we’re sated in leisure, we watch it flyAnd time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for meAnd time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for meTime can tear down a building or destroy a woman’s…
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The Times, They Are A Changing
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“The line it is drawn, the curse it is castThe slowest now will later be fastAs the present now will later be pastThe order is rapidly fadin’And the first one now will later be last‘Cause the times, they are a-changin’” Bob Dylan (1963) My Grandpop Leitmeyer was born in 1900.…
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Our House, In the Middle of Our Street
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“Father wears his Sunday bestMother’s tired, she needs a restThe kids are playing up downstairsSister’s sighing in her sleepBrother’s got a date to keepHe can’t hang aroundOur house, in the middle of our streetOur house, in the middle of our…Our house it has a crowdThere’s always something happeningAnd it’s usually…
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1973 – I Never Knew Me A Better Time
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“Crocodile Rocking is something shockingWhen your feet just can’t keep stillI never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will”– Crocodile Rock (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) As a child, I would listen to the radio with my portable cassette player at my side, hitting “record” whenever a song…