Locked down with my Ukulele 30

These are strange times and it’s been a while.

Stuff’s happened.

I do worry that people will start to avoid me if they think that a conversation with me might appear as an anecdote in my blog. But, I think maybe people are just avoiding me because I’m me.

It is funny how two people can observe the same incident and offer two differing accounts of what they have just witnessed. I’ve often said something and had it come back to me with the same words but differing from my original meaning. I wonder if our lives were documented into a screenplay by verbal accounts taken from friends if we would recognise our own biography.

I’ve been alone for some time and watched the efforts of others who are testing out relationships. The easy route is when you like someone and they do communicate that they reciprocate. The difficult route is when one of the pair does not reciprocate. This can be embarrassing for all concerned. I’ve noticed a guy who’s carried a torch for a woman for years and he just hasn’t got the message that he’s chasing a broken dream.

There’s also the scenario when an older guy goes for a pretty young thing. Even if the attention is mutual public opinion can be cruel. But sometime somewhere if you are lonely the risk has to be taken. If it works I guess the rewards make the risk worthwhile.

Time in a bottle. Jim Croce.

Jim Croce also wrote “I’ll have to say I love you in a song”.

I became aware of this song when it was a request on the radio. The caller had a personal connection to the song and reflected on her lost loved one. When the song played I was driving down the M11. It took me by surprise! As I listened to the lyrics and the feeling that was put into performing it I found tears rolling down my cheeks.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day 'Til eternity passes away Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever If words could make wishes come true I'd save every day like a treasure and then Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do Once you find them I've looked around enough to know That you're the one I want to go Through time with

In my research I found it was written when Jim heard that he was going to be a father. When I heard this I had a whole different imagining of the meaning to the song. I guess that’s the gift of a songwriter you put down a set of words and it’s the listener that makes meaning of what they hear. The same words but a differing meaning.

Stay safe