I just wrote a long rambling post which was going to be entitled "Whingeing" but then I watched this video and I deleted all my words.
Forty-five years ago today since John Lennon was murdered. I'm never going to be done grieving. Oh, how lucky I was to have been around when he was alive and in love and making music.
Bless him. Bless Yoko. Bless all of us who loved him and miss him even still.
Love...Mary
He was unique, wasn’t he?
ReplyDeleteAll the best ones are.
DeleteIt's hard to believe it was so long ago. I caught up on your last post, lovely time with your grandsons.
ReplyDeleteJack was home sick today, he had a fever in the morning but by the time lunch was done, he was back to himself. He went to bed at 6:30pm and so did poppa. My husband just worked 8 days in a row (removal of one CT scanner and installation of a new CT scanner). He's not a young man anymore and he's exhausted. He feel asleep on the couch right after supper so I sent them both to bed.
Maggie threw up five times yesterday, including once in the parking lot of the Urgent Care. She tested negative for everything, wanted lunch, ate it, and has been fine ever since.
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My husband will NOT go to bed when I try to make him go there. He'll sleep in his chair for hours, claiming he's watching TV. He is the definition of stubborn.
Thank you for remembering him today. I miss his presence. I wonder what he would say about the currrent state of affairs….
ReplyDeleteI think we know what he'd say. I also wonder if the current state of affairs would be different if he had not been taken from us. As Yoko said, "With your mind you changed the world."
DeleteI think she was right.
we lit candles and sat outside on our picnic table in solidarity with the world mourning day
ReplyDeleteI remember that moment.
DeleteThat's a beautiful and poignant tribute video. I was a big John Lennon fan too. I remember hearing the news of his murder 45 years ago today. I was in second year law, cramming for the mid-term exam in Contracts. I was so shocked and upset by the news that I couldn't continue studying.
ReplyDeleteI think many, many of us remember where we were when we heard that news. I have not yet gotten over the shock of it. I suppose I never will.
DeleteBeautiful song. I didn't remember what year he died. I gave my entire Beatles collection to my younger son who really loves music of any kind.
ReplyDeleteThat year was quite formative in my life. A lot was going on and the album John and Yoko had put out, Double Fantasy, from which that song comes, had been a constant background to all of it. I felt completely adrift and yet, at the same time, I faced things I had to face and I did hard things. I made mistakes too. And all I have to do is hear that bell at the very first of this song and I am right back there.
DeleteI can’t believe it’s been 45 years. I love this song.
ReplyDeleteI love that album. I lived and breathed it for months and months.
DeleteI saw the Beatles in mid 60s at De Montfort Hall in Leicester where I was brought up.......I say " saw" because I didn't hear one word of them singing due to all the stupid females screaming the whole time ! To add to that......my boyfriend at the time dumped me shortly afterwards for a girl he had met while queuing for the tickets! He was no great loss as it turned out!
ReplyDeleteWell that was not exactly a satisfying concert experience, was it? I'm so sorry. I rather doubt anyone who saw the Beatles play in America heard a note.
DeleteSuch a sad day. I love "Imagine."
ReplyDeleteOne of the most beautiful songs ever written.
DeleteThe first gift I ever gave Marc was John Lennon's album Imagine.
ReplyDeleteGood choice for a good beginning.
DeleteI will never forget that day.
ReplyDeleteI was working in the Lower School last week when one little boy, a first-grader, kept talking about John Lennon. He was telling his classmates about Lennon and how he had been shot in 1985. I didn't correct him on the year -- instead I just marveled at the fact that a first-grader, born in 2019, knew who John Lennon was!
That's amazing, Steve! His parents must be teaching him well. Or his grandparents.
DeleteI'm writing here in case you don't go back to the John Lennon post. I was in my first job out of college, working downtown. We talked about it in the small office, but then others had things to do over the noon hour. I took myself next door to a small bar for a bowl of soup. I just needed to be around other people. The restaurant was very quiet, with his music playing on the sound system. People would hug their friends when they came in, otherwise it was silent. Beatles' music and the sounds of silverware and plates. It was actually very profound. It occurred to me later that we were having communion.
ReplyDeleteBonnie in Minneapolis