Tuesday, October 24, 2017

put another nickel in

 Two sibs in their 70’s are out to dinner with their spouses and the one says, “I woke up singing ‘There was her mother, her father, her sister and her brother'….” And the other sib spontaneously joins in the singing to the end of the verse! And the beauty of it being that it was an illicit song (I Never See My Maggie Alone) we learned at our cousin’s house when we were about 5 and 6 and probably had not heard/sung in the intervening 60+ years! That’s family! That’s a musical hug! 


Perhaps our brains are a bit like a nickel-fed jukebox arm that goes back and forth searching through the records until it finds the right "tune" memory and begins to play. How nice when two jukeboxes are working in unison!

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