This morning after getting up and doing my morning routine, I looked in the mirror. Suddenly I saw what I’ve been denying that my wife has been telling me for the last two years: Gray hair. Unfortunately, I didn’t see just … Continue reading
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Good Friday and good friends
Each Friday, I post Flashback Friday, where I use St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Examen as a guide and usually ask the following questions: For what are you least grateful this past week? For what are you most grateful this past … Continue reading
Having to read a book or series before the movie(s), TV series
After taking a short break from the Harry Potter series with A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, I’m back to reading the Harry Potter series with the fifth one, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. After … Continue reading
Rainy days and Mondays
It’s not just against my window I can’t stand it, and it’s not sweet memories it brings back.
Well, one sweet memory of running on the plain in Maine when I ran my fastest 5K. The time? Er…mumble mumble. Yep. That bad, but still it was the fastest I ever ran in my life…
…except for that time when I was a freshman in gym class and I kicked a sophomore in what my wife now calls the “crotchal” area because he was being a bully and dared me to kick him there so I did.
But anyway, I digress from my topic: rainy day songs. That one above is probably my favorite rainy day song.
For the most part, rainy day songs from the 1960s and 1970s are the best, especially songs from this man:
and this group:
and this band:
In the ’90s, it was this song about November Rain, and I’ll throw in this rain song from one of my wife’s favorite singer-songwriters, because…well, it is a beautiful song:
So what are your favorite rainy day songs? Um, yeah, you’ll notice I didn’t put a link to the song I used in the title. There’s a reason for that. I don’t like the song.
