my kids

My Kids Make My Christmas

At 15, 14, and soon to be 18, they are all taller than me

sometimes they think smarter than me

but always, always in my heart no matter what I do

it's with them in mind.

Merry Christmas

Best Song to Dance to EVER

because songs from junior high matter

and of course, this...

......home.........I guess I'm already there...........

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (originally recorded by Talking Heads)

Home
Is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me 'round
I come home
Born with a weak heart
I guess I must be having fun

But the less we say about it the better
Let's make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground
Head in the clouds
I'm okay I know nothing's wrong
Hi Ho - Got plenty of time.....
Hi Ho - Got light in your eyes.....

And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money
Always for love
Cover up and say goodnight , Say goodnight.....

Home
Is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home
You lifted up your wings
I guess this must be the place

Because I can't tell one from another
Did I find you or you find me?
There was a time before we were born
If someone asks this is where I'll be

Hi Ho - We drift in and out.....
Hi Ho - Sing into my mouth.....

And out of all those kinds of people
You've got a face with a view
And I'm just an animal looking for a home
To share the same space for a minute or two

Will you love me until my heart stops?
Will you love me until I'm dead?

You've got eyes that light up
Eyes that look through
Cover up the blank spot
Hit me on the head
Say goodnight.....
Say goodnight.....
Say goodnight.....

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This song is so indescribably beautiful. I listened to it almost daily the fall before we left my home, my Maine. I find myself seeking it out again, now in the twelfth year and same month that we arrived.
"Home
Is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home
You lifted up your wings
I guess this must be the place"
We are supposed to be exactly where we are all the time, and we will be taught why we are there by our experiences and our lessons. I am here for a reason, and I have given up the struggle to challenge it. I feel that this song resonates for me so strongly because there is a part of me that feels that I am here for a short time... be it 99 years, it is still short... and that I am supposed to be doing something and I feel that there is not enough time. I have chosen this life, and I am grateful for the good parts and the happy parts that I have had thus far. I do feel that longing for closeness, for comfort and peace. I feel that may come after my passing, and I am okay with that.

Just to be lifted up by wings, I long for that.

into somebody loved

I love this song, and someday I will sing it and mean it.


Somebody Loved - The Weepies

Rain turns the sand into mud
Wind turns the trees into bone
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved.

Nights when the heat had gone out
We danced together alone
Cold turned our breath into clouds
We never said what we were dreaming of
But you turned me into somebody loved.

Someday when we're old and worn
Like two softened shoes
I will wonder on how I was born
The night I first ran away from you.

Now my feet turn the corner back home
Sun turns the evening to rose
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved.

©2002 Deb Talan & Steve Tannen (ASCAP/BMI). All rights reserved.

hear it: somebody loved