Today was my son’s twenty second birthday. We haven’t celebrated together since his nineteenth birthday, so it was fun. We had friends and family for a barbeque and video games. What a great time! The original plan was to have a barbeque at a local park, but when attempting to pack everything up to go, I recommended that we stay home for the barbeque and go to the park after we eat, but we never made it to the park. We had a lot of fun!
What just seemed strange was that the songs that they were playing were those from my teenage years, such as “Carry On My Wayward Son” by Kansas, “Freebird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd and others. I knew all of the words. When I realized what I was singing I had a crazy flashback to the days when I was young, single and such, just like my son. What if at that time someone had said, “Many years from now your children will gather and have a great time playing this music on play guitars….”? What will their children do when they are teenagers?
I love the connection that we have through music. We enjoy many of the same songs, styles of music and performance of music, whether it be concerts, like the one we have tomorrow at the Gateway of the Granite Junior Youth Symphony where I have a son playing the trombone and a daughter the string bass, or like the fun we’re having tonight being Guitar Heroes playing the great rock songs of the ‘70s, or any of the other times that music brings us so much joy. We sing, we play, and we love to be together. We are truly blessed to be a family.
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