And so it goes…
“Time
and tide wait for no man” ~~~ Chaucer (but probably much before that)
Interestingly,
when talking about tide, it is not the actual tide from the ocean, but as I
understand it, the seasons of the year.
A shame really, I would have also liked to quote King Canute, the great
Dane who commanded the oceanic tide to recede.
In fact I think I will; it went something like this…
“Go
back. Go backel. Go blobble.
Go globblee-ooble-blebble”
I’ve
been itching to write. But so busy! How come, at almost 57, I am busier than when
I was a younger man? I simply don’t
get it. But onwards…
Today’s
a special day. Today my eldest daughter,
and middle child, has reached a milestone; twenty-one. Twenty-one today! Her birthday day started when she left our
home to drive on highway 402 to Alvinston to go to work. It was only last week that the highway was
closed because of the snow (again); bloody winter has been a right royal pain
this ‘tide’. It’s about a forty minute
drive and Zoe made it safe and sound.
Tonight Zoe will be accompanying me to a Neil Diamond concert; she’s not
too keen on it but agreed to go. Not
sure what the big deal is here; I
enjoyed his music when I was twenty-one. In fact I grew up with his music. The times have changed, I guess; but not the
tides.
Last
evening, her mother (that’s my lovely bride, Jane) and I were going through the
“photo box” to grab some photos that I could put together with a medley and
plonk it on Facebook; done. Whilst searching, I got a brief look at my life.
Wow! I mean WOW! Have I really managed to come along that
far? How marvellous it was to see where
that young fella that only lived for himself and his beer, beloved football
(soccer), beer, music, beer, etc. has come.
A long way indeed.
Although
my blog is about me, this day is really about Zoe. I know she doesn’t want to go to the Neil
Diamond concert tonight because it really isn’t her ‘thing’. But I am grateful that she is and that she
will get to see, first-hand, an artist that truly moves and inspires me with
his music and words; some of his lyrics are quite profound; just listen
intently to ‘I am, I said’ or ‘Stones’ or ‘Beautiful Noise’. I have been playing his music on my stereo
(yup; still got one), iTunes and guitar for ever.
So
happy twenty-first birthday to my middle child and eldest daughter, Zoe Jane
Freeman. You have grown in to a
wonderful young lady. You are now a
college graduate and working girl. Who
knows what awaits you in your future.
And you have to look to your future; that’s where you’re going to spend
the rest of your life. Enjoy your next trip around the sun, Zoe!
There
was a time when I wasn’t so sure that my future would follow the path trod by so
many others; find a partner, fall in love, get married, raise a family. But I have done so and am proud and content with my lot. I am still married to my lovely bride after twenty-eight years, all three of my kids are now adults; the
eldest one, and only son, is in the Royal Canadian Air Force, one is a working girl with the
school board and the youngest is finding her way, progressing through
university. I wonder what goes on in
their heads! I wonder if their thoughts
and musings get as deep as their dear old dad.
I
wonder…
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