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Strawberry Fields Forever

Let me take you down Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields Forever Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me Shortly after we moved to the East Coast we built a small garden at the end of our driveway so the kids could grow vegetables and we could see progress each time we came home.  With our neighbor’s help, we built the outline with railroad ties, secured the base with spikes, and added small seats at each corner so the kids could sit and plant or just sit and enjoy time with their achievements.  We had no intention of securing a food supply for the next natural disaster or becoming organic farmers.  This was just your normal small garden so we could bring a bit of country into the suburbs. Over the years the garden has produced chives, lettuce, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, and even a pumpkin or t

Homeward Bound

I'm sittin' in the railway station Got a ticket for my destination On a tour of one night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one man band Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home, where my thought's escaping Home, where my music's playing Home, where my love lies waiting Silently for me In Good Day Sunshine I wrote about a family that loaded up a car with their hopes, fears, and lots of prayers and headed out on a new adventure at CHOP.  I wrote about a family who started an adventure which they never wanted to take nor anticipated. And, I wrote about a family whose children faced their adversity with such grace and strength that a father would never be the same. Just over one year later those car rides will be coming to an end and a new adventure will begin. That family is Homeward Bound . I write today about “that family” because so much has happened over the past year that it is hard to rem

Stand By Me

When the night has come And the land is dark And the moon is the only light we’ll see No, I won’t be afraid Oh, I won’t be afraid Just as long as you stand, stand by me I haven’t written too much about our son Carter.   Maybe it’s because he has enough to manage as the big brother and maybe it’s because I wanted to keep him away from the attention.  But, after his eighth grade  chorus class sang Stand By Me , a post stuck in my head.  Whatever the reason, today is his day and it is well deserved. Carter has the good fortune and the misfortune of being the only boy stuck between two sisters.  The good fortune part the deal is threefold.  First, he doesn’t have to compete with his brothers for the biggest eater, strongest wrestler, or best joke teller like I did (and lost on all accounts).  Second, he doesn’t have to share Dad’s attention for his lacrosse and football games.  And third, he is close enough in age to eventually date both of his sisters’ friends two years older and two