Life by the Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Life by the Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughn

I love this song and it holds a very important story in my life.  One I haven't shared. But on this my 50th birthday, It is one of my most special songs. This song is the story of the day I found out I could live MY life.  So no details on this chapter, but I share the song that moved me. Lana, I don't know how you got lost, but I could not turn 50 and not think of this song.  Only you know the story. Peace be with you.


God Danced the Day You Were Born - Guy Forsyth

Thought, if you believe in God, a God, Any God...then your life was a gift.  It occurs to me that I would never want to squander such a beautiful gift.  Love the life you live, it is a GIFT.

Stop Children What's That Sound - CSNY

When I was 15 or 16, I stripped and waxed a liquor store, including bathrooms to get this Album.  You can't be my age and not have this song take you back.  It was a radical time.  It seemed scary at times.  Now what seems scary is that I don't hear teenagers caring about much of anything.  They are so busy being tethered to an electronic device that they are consumed by their own lives.  That is my rant as a newly old person.  But to be honest I wouldn't strip and wax a floor for 20 albums.  Maybe I am younger than I think LOL

Watching the River Run - Loggins and Messina

I can remember listening to this song in my late teens, just as I was beginning to realize that school days don't last forever.  I would soon learn that those friends would fade too.  This song is the hope of love starting new, "Don't feel alone anymore, when we are together I got a lot".  It also waxes nostalgic... "Further and further from the things that we have done, leaving them one by one".  I think my life is at the part where it says... "listening and learning and yearning, run river run".  I am willing to wade out in the water and let it take me where it wants.  Run River Run!

I Only Want the Things That Matter - Guy Forsyth

I wrote a post on this song some months ago, I was not comfortable with it and hit delete.  But I am ready now.  I have taken a step I did not think I had in me.  I now see with out the step, I would not be who I want to be.  SM Thank you for giving me your GRACE....It's pure SOULSHINE!


Turning 50 needed more than one song.  I put in one per decade...and even that was a paring down.