1. For the last ten or eleven days, Debbie has spent time with family on Lake Michigan and in Woodbridge, VA. Over those days, she kept me posted about how things were going with terrific photos and text messages, but this evening we had an extended phone call now that she's back in Valley Cottage, NY.
Debbie's voice was exhausted from the travel and the intensity of concentrated time with so many people over a short time, but we talked for over an hour and we both have a much clearer picture of what's going on in each of our worlds.
We are accustomed to dealing with uncertainty and here we are again. While we know things are solid between us, that things at home in Kellogg are going very well, that Debbie is doing exactly what she needs to be doing, and that we both agree a hundred percent+ on that, we don't know just yet when we'll see each other next.
2. From time to time, I thoroughly enjoy watching videos of Postmodern Jukebox covering well-known songs by transforming them into wholly different genres of music than how we know them. Today I discovered a recently posted video of Postmodern Jukebox performing "House of the Rising Sun" in the style of soul music, featuring a superb soul singer I hadn't heard of named LaVance Colley. (I'm not very familiar with soul music on the whole.)
Before I knew it I was happily watching Postmodern Jukebox on video after video enjoying songs like "Time of the Season", "Stayin' Alive", "The Chain", "Seven Nation Army", and others performed superbly in musical styles miles away from how The Zombies, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, and The White Stripes originally recorded and performed these songs.
3. A bed of rice, a generously peppered, salted, and garlic powdered ground beef patty, some fried (unbreaded) rings of white onion, and a vegetable loaded green salad turned out to be just the simple and tasty dinner I needed with so much on my mind after Debbie and I had our jam-packed conversation.
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