Normally never write two days in a row, but just want to get this in for the record...I woke up without tears this a.m. one of the few days that happens, so I was so pleased as it's difficult to put on eye make up with watery eyes ...anyway, listened to a show that is not always my fave..the Vinyl Café with Stuart McLean, He often got on my nerves in the past..but today he really nailed it.
The show was recorded at a lovely concert hall in St. John N.B. he said so many terrific things about St. John, all true...as Mac would confirm...he also said St. John N.B. was Canada's best kept Secret...Well, those words were said by both Mac and I so often. St. John was the place where Mac spent so many summers of his childhood. His memories of swimming in the coldest waters of Canada...watching the highest tide in Bay of Fundy, eating dulce with his friends (and trying to like it)..
Mac went by train all by himself when he was little. He remembers waking up to look out the window as the sun came up over the Miramiche. We went a couple of times to renew his memories and he always would say this is where I would wake up..This is the time I would be so happy knowing that I would be free of school, and going to spend summertime with my sister Gertie and her husband Bill..He just loved St. John, we walked along all the streets he knew so well. We even drove out to some little summer houses on the river where they also spent time.
Stuart McLean echoed all the words that Mac has said to me through the years. I can also vouch for the lovely places not only St. John but the province of New Brunswick, the beaches, the woods, the wild life and of course my favourite place is always beside an Ocean. The whole program took me down memory lane, and well, my eye make up streaked as I relived our beautiful times there.
Then the show finished off in the way Stuart usually ends with a kind of singsong of an old favorite song..He tells people to close their eyes, and not to worry about their voice, how well or how poorly they sing...and the show ended with a song that just topped the whole thing off for me..and that was Shine on Harvest Moon...How often we sang that at the top of our lungs as we could see the moon through the car window as we drove home from the cottage or even while we washed dishes after company left..we could see the big harvest moon from our kitchen window...
Well so much for not grieving today...it will have to wait...but they say it can be good for you. Today I can say..o.k. maybe so...
So shine on g'bye.
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