GRATITUDE - December 7, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR LIVING IN THE USA.

With all the strife we hear about throughout the world today, I am thankful I was born and live in the United States.  I can travel anywhere I wish, anytime I wish.  I can travel to other countries and with medical issues, I am thankful that I have good healthcare and the transportation to get to where I need to be.  There are millions of people on the Earth that have none of these benefits.

Today being the anniversary of "A Day that will Live in Infamy"...the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, seventy-one years ago today.  The U.S. had a much bigger terrorist attack than 9-11.  This was the act that plunged the U.S. into World War II.  Because we prevailed, U.S. citizens enjoy the benefits of living in the best place in the world.  I, for one, am thankful.

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GRATITUDE - December 6, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR BEING PART OF THE 60'S GENERATION MUSIC EXPLOSION.

Those were my high school and college years, with a lot of weekends spent in San Francisco, a definite anchor in the West Coast music scene.  At the Fillmore you could see the soon to-be-legends of classic rock for $2.00 or $3.00, with 3 or 4 groups on the bill.  I'm sure standing in front of the jet-engine decible spekers helped me to the comforting silence of semi-deafness I enjoy today.  I put in my hearing aids for my family - still not satisfactory to them - but it is a positive gesture on my part.  If you aren't trying to listen to an important conversation or to the dialogue on the  T.V. the muted silence is nice.

I became a big fan of style of music poster art and got fairly acomplished at writing in a style that is barely legible today to anyone that wasn't in the moment.  The short lived talent faded when I stopped doing artwork on my son's lunch bags when they were small.

Good Times.  Sparked my desire to play Rock Bass.  Just took me 40 years to make it happen. With less hair of course.

1960 - 1969
"The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.

In the mid-1960s, The Fillmore Auditorium became the focal point for psychedelic music and counterculture in general, with such acts as John Mahon,The Grateful Dead,The Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Byrds, Big Brother and the Holding Company,Carlos Santana, The Allman Brothers Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Miles Davis, and British acts The Who, Pink Floyd, Elton John, and Cream all performing at the venue. Besides rock, Graham also featured non-rock acts such as Lenny Bruce,Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Lloyd, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding as well as poetry readings.

The venue had a legendary ambience as well as the stellar performances, often with swirling light-show projections, strobe lights and uninhibited dancing. The cultural impact of the Fillmore was very large. It is referenced by Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in a description of the counterculture of the 1960s in the San Francisco Bay area."

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GRATITUDE - December 5, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR MEMORIES AND PHOTO PROOF WE WERE ALL YOUNGER ONCE.

 
With all the new generation births popping up (or out) in our clan lately, I still have enough brain cells left to remember when Sharon and I were filling those roles of the next generation producers with her batch of girls and my batch of boys.  Can you say 25-30 years ago...yow!  We must have had some fun as time has certainly flown.

Just a mere 26 days left in 2012.  What is on your 2012 Resolution List that is not checked off?  Better get crackin'.

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GRATITUDE - December 4, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR A PERFECT DAY IN RETIREMENT.

5:55 am  - up and making coffee, packing lunches and making breakfast for Lise and Sarah.

6:45 am - take a quick nap and relax over coffee enjoying the changing leaf colors in our back yard

7:45 am - take Sarah to high school

8:30 am - meet personal trainer at the gym for one-hour power workout

 9:30 am - alternate steam room and hot tub for one hour

11:00 am - Drive to Crocker Art Museum and find perfect spot to park right in front of museum.

11:05 am - visit Crocker Art Museum Store and pick up free copy of my choice of art books for being a member ($45 value).

11:10 am - spend two hours on just the second floor galleries with no push to 'hurry up or we'll be late' anxiety

1:00 pm - Have late lunch at the Crocker Cafe - Soup/Foccacia bread with Fig Balsamic-Olive oil and a glass of Merlot

2:15 pm - arrive back home, plug in bass and work on Friday's studio recording of 'White Rabbit' and 'Don't Say You Love Me'

3:45 pm - leave to pick Sarah up from high school

4:25 pm - arrive back at home - make pasta and Parmesan Chicken for Sarah for quick dinner

5:00 pm - Take Sarah to ballet practice at Sacramento Ballet studios downtown Sacramento

6:00 pm - Stop at the grocery store on the way home for ingredients for Toll House chocolate-chip cookies.

6:45 pm - Fix and enjoy dinner with Lise and the cat

7:30 pm - Back to the Ballet studio to pick up Sarah

8:30 pm - More bass practice on 'Unchained Melody' and 'Message in a Bottle' for Friday recording.

9:30 pm - Do blog

10:00 pm - Watch 'Bones and' 'The Mentalist'

11:45 pm - Hot shower and off to bed waiting for another perfect day tomorrow.

rlw

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GRATITUDE - December 3, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR  MORE TIME WITH MY DAUGHTER.

With new babies entering the clan like crazy, I am reminded how quickly children go from 1 month old to grown-up and gone.  It doesn't seem all that long ago when my boys were little guys playing with Ninja Turtles, Transformers and pet mice.  Now, all are in the 25-30 range and are adult men.

My daughter is 14 going on 22.  Boys are not a forbidden topic, lots of mother-daughter trips to the store and she is permantly grafted to her Android.  Daddy's little girl is now a young woman and the 'jump into my arms when I came home from work' moments are no longer here.

Time spent with her is dwindling and accordingly, is very precious to me.  I love the retired thing that allows me to drive her to school, pick her up from school and cart her back and forth to ballet practice.  Even when I have to turn around and go back home to pick up her homework she left on the kitchen counter after I mentioned it far too many times...has a silver lining to it.  It is the last vestigages of bonding a parent has before they turn 18 and head off to college.  There will be another version after they are adults, but it is more like friends and not so much Daddy fixing things for his little girl and being the main man in her life.

I am thankful for the opportunity for extra time and the vision to appreciate it.

rlw

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GRATITUDE - December 2, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR STILL BEING AROUND TO ATTEND MY GRANDSON KYAN'S 2ND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.



More quarters for
the arcade?

Should I eat one more?



I'm shy, Mom.

Every special moment from here on is a plus for me.  Luck and good doctors have kept me kicking and enjoying the small and large benefits of more time on earth.



Big brother Zak
and Kyan guarding
the cupcakes

Dad Ian - Auntie Sarah -
Grandma Lise and little
bro' Linkin

My grandson, Kyan, celebrated his 2nd birthday today with his mom, dad, brothers and uncles, aunts, grandmas and grandpas in attendence.  There was alot of happy love spread around the room amongst the cupcakes, camera flashes and dripping ice cream.

I enjoyed it probably more than he did.  Thankfulness is hard to measure.

rlw


My son Ian,
little brother Linkin
and me

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GRATITUDE - December 1, 2012

I AM GRATEFUL FOR ANOTHER YEAR.

Wow!  Here it is, the last 30 days (after today) of 2012 (I am betting the Mayans were wrong).  The year has been full of changes for me. 

Finally retired, upped my music performance and even posted some new YouTube videos, enjoyed watching my neices become moms and my sister embrace grandmotherhood, my daughter started high school, wow...four years ago, I would not have placed serious money on writing this blog today.


THE THRILL IS DEFINITELY NOT GONE  -video


SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE STOOD BY ME  - video


"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize

they were the big things."  - Robert Brault

 

 

rlw

 

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