Icewind's Ramblings

As I travel all over I have loaded on my iPod many songs that go with me from place to place, or while sitting waiting at airports or at night on the overnight trips to the villages since there is no television.   My music travels with me and is varied as the wind with so many artists and styles. The feel good music is naturally from the 60’ through the 80’s as to many of us in the baby boomer generation that was when the music was at its best with so many great artists changing the face of music and how it was presented to our ears. Music for many of us starts our day and sets the mood of what is to come.   For some of us we may play a certain song or two everyday like an anthem.   My two songs are: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwo’ole And What a Wonderful World by Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwo’ole What is your music that starts or makes your day? Do you have a certain time you play it?   Is it in the car on the way to work or when you first...

I blogged about this in 2006 and with all of the recent death of friends and people I have known over the years I thought I would write about this once again.   I wanted to share it and see what you are thinking about your own “Theater of Life”.   Friends and friendship play an important part of our everyday life whether we are consciously aware of it or not.   It is one of the things you go through life & hopefully as you get older there are those you have around you everyday by choice, those that are there for you without question without the everyday or recent contact but you know they are “in the wings” for you if you needed them. This was a simple analogy and I do not know where it originally came from or who the author is.   The words and concept have me thinking and looking at the different possibilities from my own life as different people have come and gone over the years.   With Facebook it makes it even more real as we can now re-connect with...