Music The Amazing Emporium of Wondrous Tunes (aka: What are you listening to?)

2020 has been a rough year but really it seems to be more of a final culmination of the past several years starting in 2016. Too many funerals, family setbacks, and reminders that time never stops. Today is Thanksgiving in the US and it's a sunny day. As I sit by the window, with my dog in my lap as he enjoys a nap in the rays of the sun, an Elton John song keeps fading in & out of my head. See you guys & gals in a few days, I'll be mentally checked out for the long weekend.

 
Next as I continue down rabbit hole is that scene in Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Kindergarten Cop, where the kids are settling in for an afternoon nap. Arnie reads an A.A. Milne poem "Spring Morning" to the kids:


Love the poem, by the way:

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
Down to the stream where the king-cups grow-
Up on a hill where the pine-trees blow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

Where am I going? The clouds sail by,
Little ones, baby ones, over the sky.
Where am I going? The shadows pass,
Little ones, baby ones, over the grass.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,
You'd sail on the water as blue as air.
And you'd see me here in the fields and say:
"Doesn't the sky look green today?"

Where am I going? The high rooks call:
"It's awful fun to be born at all.
Where am I going? The ring-doves coo:
"We do have beautiful things to do."

If you were a bird, and lived on high,
You'd lean on the wind when the wind
came by,
You'd say to the wind when it took you away:
"That's where I wanted to go today!"

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the wood where the blue-bells grow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
 
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