Well, I don't know.
I just know the arrival of each day is the opportunity to discover how one's being at any moment is important. I'm working on a song, a painting, and a...what? There have to be three things, don't there?
What's the third thing?
The song is this (dashed parts are phrasings I need to remember):
If-I-had a timemachine clock
that ticked while it tocked
I don't think I'd turn back its hands
I many not have had
as much as I want
but believe it's bout all I can stand
Ahhhh, retirement
Stayin' alive
is the sole requirement
I did my time walkin' the line
and now that it's mine
I play all the time
It's warmed up to freezing
which has me believing
that I may go outside today
I got nothing to do
but write this for you
to sing what I have to say
Although you may not hear it
or come anywhere near it
I'll quietly sing it and play
You-may-not-be around
to hear the sound
but that goddamn tree fell anyway
instrumental break
Ahhhh, retirement
Stayin' alive
is the sole requirement
I did my time walkin' the line
and now that it's mine
I play all the time
instrumental break
I will put on my hat
my coat and my gloves
and take my dog out for a walk
it may sound lame
but just the same
sometimes I wish he could talk
Scheduliberation
the ultimate vacation
I did my time walking those lines
and now that it's mine
I play all the time...
The current painting is of my friend and brother Matt Melon, he of Magic Metal Designs fame, from a photo I took of him working while my friend and brother, Rocky Alvey, and I sat watching Columbo reruns on Matt's laptop, smoking cigars, and drinking bourbon in his makeshift workshop in East Nashville on a cold November day. Matt is welding and well, I guess I just love the photo image and wanted it to be (more or less) immortalized in acrylics on canvas, as if my painting it would do that. When I finish it I want it to live on the wall of the big shop he's building outside of Lyles, TN. I'm still working on it:
The third thing is you. I don't thank you enough. I don't tell you I love you enough. I need to work harder to do both of those things. Thank you. I love you. If I didn't have a mental image of you I would not be able to do this. I do. Maybe I should paint that. Maybe it's too vast to reproduce, or maybe too miniscule.
