Singing

The blue tick hound next door is barking(baying) while I sing softly here in the hot tub outside. I just discovered something I once discovered as a child. Playing my own music on keyboards, organ,  piano or guitar or flute and also singing is one of the few things in life that can bring me out of a funk when I have to bury someone who has died. Even that word "Bury" isn't really true much in California anymore. People I know don't usually get buried, they get cremated first and then transported to where they want their ashes deposited which usually is at sea or on top or near the top of a mountain they love somewhere.

But, singing softly songs I used to sing and play on piano and guitar just brought me out of a funk I have been in since I had to go to a memorial in Southern California last week. The problem was that 14 years ago in Spring 1999 I had to go to the same place for my wife's mother's funeral (memorial) and after that I almost lost my wife to her mother's death. She had a real hard time staying alive for a couple of years for our then 2 1/2 year old daughter and me. But, all things eventually pass and life moved on now 14 years later and here we were going to exactly the same place for my wife's stepfather's girlfriend this time. He's now 95 and his girlfriend was about 77 I think. And my wife's mother was about that same age in 1999 when she passed away too.

Anyway, if you are like me and naturally musical like my mother was and I still am maybe try singing or playing music if it will help you in difficult times like these.