February 24, 2010
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When something goes right
Well it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
Because it’s such an unusual sight
Oh, I can’t, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right…
The Daily News1 Ah, lovely, lovely words.2 Ah, yup!
3 Amazingly, I always feel this way when everything goes well. I usually think of Robert Hunter’s lyrics from Uncle John’s Band:
“Well the first days are the hardest days don’t you worry anymore,’cuz when life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door...”4 Yesterday I began feeling more like Poet # 2 rather than Poet #1, above. I had prepared all week to come back in and come out swingin’ but HAD to have a handout ready yesterday mornin’. I had prepared, worked super hard on my lesson, but still had that usual fear of “danger at your door.” It’s been a few years of that, so you go into every sitch wearing a suit of armor.
5 I had decided to get to school WAY early, sneak into repro, bring my own paper for backup, and run the day’s lesson, which was important, ‘cuz it was an introduction to Shakespeare, a fella most of these guys had HEARD of, but that nobody had a CLUE about.
6 I have this awesome old book called Insights, which somehow over the years got switched out because probably it was TOO good, and snuck in this morning to copy this Intro to Shakespeare page that is AWESOME for the students.
7 Well…normally in a situation like this, you get to school early; the library is locked, the repro machine is jammed, and we have no paper. That’s normal in education, circa 2010.
8 Instead, the room was empty, they HAD paper, and the machines were clear for takeoff.
9 I wasn’t quite sure as to what to do. Life normally throws roadblocks and imbecilic challenges into the arena of our lives.
10 Instead…
11 Everything was all right.
12 I had time. I had prepared. My copies were beautifully succinct. Nobody was in the room. The machines all cooperated.
13 And I was MORE uptight than ever!
14 Well, to keep it short, EVERYTHING went right, all day and all night.
15 I wasn’t USED to that!
16 Ah, me old friend and confidant Paul Simon wrote a song/poem/poem/song about that veddy thing called Something So Right. Here are the very positive lyrics:
Something So Right
Words & music by Paul Simon
You’ve got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You’ve got the look of lovelight in your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
’til you calmed me down
It took a little time
But you calmed me downWhen something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
And the last one to knowWhen something goes right
Well it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
It’s such an unusual sight
Oh, I can’t, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so rightThey’ve got a wall in China
It’s a thousand miles long
To keep out the foreigners they made it strong
And I’ve got a wall around me
That you can’t even see
It took a little time
To get next to meWhen something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
And the last one to know
When something goes right
Well it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
Because it’s such an unusual sight
Oh, I can’t, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so rightSome people never say the words “I love you”
It’s not their style
To be so bold
Some people never say the words “I love you”
But like a child they’re longing to be told,When something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
And the last one to know
When something goes right
Well it’s likely to lose me,
It’s apt to confuse me
Because it’s such an unusual sight
I swear, I can’t, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right17 What a WONDERFUL concept.
18 Yesterday I lived this song. I even remembered my umbrella, think of THAT!
19 Sidebar Part 1: I’ve written DN’s about the importance of umbrellas on many occasions.
20 I also spent time yesterday after school assembling a glossary of Shakespearean terms, which doesn’t sound like much, but in my eye, took a tremendous burden off, and was definitely going to benefit my students.
21 And the best part: nothing at all went wrong!
22 EVERYTHING contributed to an awesome day, and as of this entry, nothing has come in and made it a challenge.
23 Don’t get me wrong. I DO appreciate challenges, because I enjoy figuring out ways to see challenges as just that: challenges.
24 Those of you who know me knows I take on challenges with most everything.
25 Didn’t need to.
26 When I got home, there was no bad news, nor anything else that would put me over the edge.
27 Every now and again, life treats you right by simply not throwing boushit at you.
28 Yesterday was such a time.
29 Nothing went wrong.
30 I wasn’t quite used to that.
31 Isn’t it interesting how we always seem to expect the other shoe to drop?
32 For once, it didn’t.
33 I LOVED it, and decided that things often just right themselves, despite whatever is happening to ANY of us.
34 Loved it.
35 Hope you loved this one too, ‘cuz sometimes it’s all about life offering occasional fairness, as well as the wonder of dreams to all of us.
36 Today could offer the same thing, and the next days too!
37 So I guess the message of today’s DN is this: don’t give up hope. It’s what life is all about.
38 I love you all, everything.
39 Let today be the best day of the year. Find it in your heart.
40 If you believe, it may come to pass.
41 With that, I shall leave today knowing that life truly does give us hope.
42 Hopefully, the danger has passed, and it is the beginning of an awesome Spring for all of us.
43 Sure hope so.
44 Live life.
45 Love life.
46 I love you all, everything.
47 Peace.
~H~
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