I can’t let go of it.

I am listening to an old cassette tape I made years ago.  It is a compilation of many favourite songs ( I like to spell favourite like the Brits do).

This cassette tape is going on twenty years old at least.  It is full of songs whose original recordings I lost track of many years ago.   The last time I saw my tape of “When in Rome” was 19-something.  Their song “The Promise” is on this tape.

Long before I ever recorded a song or picked up a guitar, this tape was playing in my car and in my home stereo just like it is in 2015.  It was a heavy duty magnetic sort of cassette…quite expensive at the time.  Heck…I doubt if these things are still made.

This one is special to me.  It has songs I never want to forget or lose touch with.  Now and again I just need to hear Billy Joel sing “And So it Goes”.

I hope and pray all of you had a blessed Easter Day.  Ours was fantastic.  My dear wife, Carrie, and I went to a Sunrise service at the church we were married in.  Later in the day we hosted Easter vittles for our families.  We had a  house full and it was a great time.

We ate.  We laughed.  We remembered those we have lost and are still getting used to being without.

Speaking the rights.

Danny Johnson