Thursday, November 18, 2021

My wife and I watched Adele: One Night Only tonight

I think I got it through Amazon Prime streaming somehow. Somehow I was looking at Paramount which is sort of connected to Amazon Prime somehow the way that Acorn and Gaia can be too. It was a wonderful thing to watch for me because my wife had just returned from about 3 or 4 days in Santa Rosa so it was something nice sort of like going to a concert or something and holding hands listening to good music. There were about 300 to 500 people there live watching her sing. People like Seth Rogen and Melissa McCarthy and Ellen Degeneres and many other show people were there including I think Lizzo and Drake and Oprah and many others. They set up at the Griffith Park Observatory in front of it which has a majestic View of especially West LA and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards too. 

I used to go there as a boy around 1960 when I was 12 to 14 on my bicycle because we could ride our bikes to this location. The streams then were often running before the latest 20 year drought and we could catch California Crayfish in the streams that ran down then often from the top of Griffith park then. So, it was a return to my boyhood because I loved going to Griffith park observatory because of the astronomy lectures and science stuff there with my friends then. So, just her performing at a boyhood haunt of mine then was wonderful. We would ride our bikes over from Glendale on Weekends to visit there. and one time a friend of mine climbed into a water tank up on one of the hills around there on a hot summer day and went swimming which looking back was a dangerous thing to do on many different levels. But, likely it was 1960 and boys did a lot of strange things like walking up to Brand boulevard from the LA River up storm drains that were 8 feet high. I think we climbed one of the ladders at one point and looked up and saw we were on upper Brand Boulevard then in Glendale up through the the holes in one of the manhole covers then. Boys who are 12 to 15 often do some pretty strange things.

But watching Adele not only took me back to my childhood once again it also made me cry listening to her songs while I held my wife's hand on the living room couch listening to her trying to find love that works in her life.

It seems like eventually most people give up at some point on love and security. But, I got lucky at around 45 to 47 years old when I met my present wife and we have been together now since 1994 in the fall and got married in 1995. We have a daughter that was born in 1996 who is 25 now.

So, if you get a chance to watch this performance with Adele I highly recommend it!  

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