I went searching for years to learn the important things in life. Some spent in luxury, too many were spent in strife. Truly believing if I could just find the right questions Throughout all of humanity, someone would surely know.
What happens after death, are we all alone? The answers were never written in stone. What is the real difference between love and faith? Is it too late with three out at the bottom of the eighth?
The Answer Might Be 42 But it never was about that. Finding neither question or answer Nor even a wise old sage or wizard.
To learn how to listen I sought out musicians To know what is real I studied magicians. Accountants I’ve met could never measure true cost. Preparing for challenge I drank with those who have lost.
To see both sides I closely examined the moon. You can see the ground better from a hot air balloon. Can’t understand demons if you always talk to saints. What is freedom if you’ve never known restraints?
The Answer Might Be 42 But it was never about that. The secret of life is not found in questions Better served by learning whom to ask.
I often mention my talented wife and children sprinkled within posts over the years. When the girls were very young we made Christmas and the holidays a creative fest whenever possible. From pumpkin carving parties with over 200 pumpkins, costumes and haunted houses, we put our own flair into everything. We avoided the commercial and traditional.
Each year we would send our many friends a hand-made original Christmas ‘Card’. We would start two months before Christmas to imagine, design and create a unique holiday greeting from our entire family. Many are still hung up or placed on mantels to this day. It is hard to describe so you can get an idea of the projects. One time we made small cloth trees decorated in style with a hook on them so you could hang them as an ornament. Another year we took clear glass ornamental globes and other shaped bobbles and poured paint inside making them sparkle with bright colors and/or glitter on the inside of the glass.
As a musician I built up a small home recording studio over the years. In the lyrics we reference “7 tracks and SMPTE”. I had a digital recorder back then but advanced as it was at the time it only had eight tracks, and one of them you used to record a clock signal so it would sync with the MIDI instruments I had controlled by a hardware sequencer (RECORDING WAS A LOT HARDER IN THOSE DAYS!!!). Every few years I managed to work in a family musical project. Here are two audio recordings we sent as that year’s ‘card’.
This tradition really became a thing and people looked forward to getting their next card, knowing it would be unlike any other they would receive that year, or ever again.
Here is my family recording two Christmas carols for our annual card project. One is a traditional cover of a song you are familiar with. The other is our version of a classic. Even if you aren’t ‘all about Christmas’ and everything, I think you will find this cute and maybe hilarious at the same time.
I wish you all well and hope we can keep lost loved ones close to our hearts and friends and family in our thoughts.
Thinking of the times we were both in school They said I was an idiot and called you a fool. In high school you created a vaccine that kept thousands alive When I was bored I solved problems for the first warp drive.
One time I saw a kid push you around I thought you would never hit the ground. I went over to help you up and when I reached out a hand With a smile you said. “Bodies in motion. Now I understand’.
In class I was asked for money and I had to refuse That week I came home with cuts and a bruise. Forget the bedside manners and dispense with the charm That’s what you meant when you would yell, ‘First, do no harm’.
Bodies In Motion pushed in so many different ways. Bodies In Motion simply can’t be measured in days.
Bullies and jerks are really nothing new Feels like so many but there’s only just a few. Beauties and brats seem to roam free across the range They appear successful but soon that will also change.
Bodies In Motion pushed in so many different ways. Bodies In Motion simply can’t be measured in days.
Thinking of the times we were both in school They said I was an idiot and called you a fool. In high school you created a vaccine that kept thousands alive When I was bored I solved problems for the first warp drive.
MidiMike 