And so i post this clip again, it's the closest i can come sonically to how today felt, if that makes sense... and of course because i have sung both these songs to both the boyos, ND has turned 5 and i know that soon he won't want me to sing to him anymore, especially cuz the old man doesn't always sing the traditional songs and because most likely his singing voice is shit, but it's coming and i know it, i'm lucky, i get to put the boyos to bed every night, i know soon that will end and they won't need the old man to read or sing or just lay there and talk, when i'm brutally honest i know i'll miss it alot more than they'll ever know... all i want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away...
Friday, August 1, 2014
The Old Man Diaries
And so i post this clip again, it's the closest i can come sonically to how today felt, if that makes sense... and of course because i have sung both these songs to both the boyos, ND has turned 5 and i know that soon he won't want me to sing to him anymore, especially cuz the old man doesn't always sing the traditional songs and because most likely his singing voice is shit, but it's coming and i know it, i'm lucky, i get to put the boyos to bed every night, i know soon that will end and they won't need the old man to read or sing or just lay there and talk, when i'm brutally honest i know i'll miss it alot more than they'll ever know... all i want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away...
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A friend dropped a line on me last weekend, as i prepared to launch my daughter onto a plane so she could go home for at least another year...
"One day your mother puts you down, and never picks you up again. In reality, she probably never realized it".
Those moments... the last time we do.... something. Or feel something.... the trippy part is we never know it when it happens.
You've got an amazing degree of self-awareness, and your ability to appreciate "right now" is enviable. Me? i'm always looking ahead, trying to lay in things to look forward to so my head doesn't crush itself. i need to do more of the "right now" thinking...
Vonnegut. "If this isn't nice, i don't know what is."
My youngest daughter asked me to dance at my nephew's wedding last Saturday. It was then I realised I had been asked to dance by a young woman, and not by a child.
The V-man turns 14 at the end of this month....I still (he actually asks me) to put him to bed every night. It's our conversation time...
he's almost 6'1" and still growing... :-)
i no longer update the blog, but you can find us on IG: @nmaxwellmathias
Daisy- I'm not smart enough to think to far ahead... and of course Vonnegut was right, i think it was Ferris Bueller who once said, "sometimes you gotta stop and smell the roses..."
Maurcheen- It's like we're watching the whole time yet we blink and we wondered how it happened so fast...
Twin- you know i get a big shit-eatin' grin every time i see a comment from you... Makes me realize how long i've been doing this when you tell me the V-man is gonna be 14 and is 6'1, hope he's still swimming, the I-mac took some swimming class this summer and at the end of it the swim coach for the local club was asking me to sign him up, all i could do was smile...
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