In Praise of the Older Woman

[Rob C]

http://youtu.be/Y6Mwm5BCR2k


And this is 2012! What would she tell us now?

Rob C

[RSL]

Very nice, Rob. But nobody's ever going to be able to replace Jerry Lee Lewis on this one.

[Rob C]

Very nice, Rob. But nobody's ever going to be able to replace Jerry Lee Lewis on this one.

Yep, not even his sister!

But he knows that:

http://youtu.be/1k9Ncs5YSPw

alternatively:

http://youtu.be/0QrGuwn4ImM


Rob C

[RSL]

Okay, but try one of my all time favorites. He played at a couple of my high school dances:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX4Nj6IU4rs&feature=related

[Rob C]

It was always a funny relationship I had with Fats: I really liked him very much, but his Blueberry Hill became the 'song' for a pal of mine and his girlfriend. We left school and went our separate ways, then on the day I was doing my Bardot shots, I saw the guy's girlfriend standing on the other side of the crowd-control barriers! I wandered over to say hi! (feeling very grand) and turned out she'd married someone else... funny, really: also turned out that the s.o.a.b. had tried to date my wife when she was my girlfriend (my wife later told me) and I can remember thinking, at the time, that his girl had something very attractive going for her (I think I shot her once)... but I'm very happy that things turned out in the combination that they did!

I also loved this:

http://youtu.be/_8CFeNxLXCo

probably my favourite from him.

You see? Not only photography had its Golden Age...

;-)

Rob

[RSL]

"EMI" blocked it again, Rob. I don't understand what's with these guys. I can access all this stuff from my browser, but a link from overseas is blocked? Which of Fats's songs was it? Here's one of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0MJzXEo6s (if it's not blocked by "EMI.")

Your story reminds me that when I was an aviation cadet (1951) I was going with a girl I was ready to marry. I came home on Christmas leave, took her out one evening and asked her to marry me. She stalled. Next night she had a "commitment" and couldn't go out. My brother got me a blind date with another girl, and by the end of that evening the earlier relationship was all over. I married my blind date sixty years go this coming November.

[Rob C]

"EMI" blocked it again, Rob. I don't understand what's with these guys. I can access all this stuff from my browser, but a link from overseas is blocked? Which of Fats's songs was it? Here's one of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0MJzXEo6s (if it's not blocked by "EMI.")

Your story reminds me that when I was an aviation cadet (1951) I was going with a girl I was ready to marry. I came home on Christmas leave, took her out one evening and asked her to marry me. She stalled. Next night she had a "commitment" and couldn't go out. My brother got me a blind date with another girl, and by the end of that evening the earlier relationship was all over. I married my blind date sixty years go this coming November.

That's one of the reasons that I believe there's a God. The older I get the more I realise that try as I might, that which is for me won't pass me by, and that which is not, I might as well forget. The trick might be knowing which is which, but eventually that penny drops too! You know, the more 'scientists' appear to doubt, the more convinced I become that the 'accidental' in Nature simply never is an accident at all.

The Domino song I tried to link was Ain't That a Shame. I still find a lot of that sort of stuff coming out of Lerose, Louisiana, streamed right to my computer in Spain:

http://www.klrzfm.com

Rob

[RSL]

There's no doubt in my mind about that one, Rob. I always think about the saying: "Science can explain how everything works, but Science can't explain why anything exists." Without having to think hard I can remember at least a half-dozen times in an airplane when something saved my butt when it didn't deserve to be saved. And my blind date for sixty years, plus four sons, nine grandsons, eight granddaughters, four great-granddaughters and one great-grandson -- none of that was accidental.

[Rob C]

There's no doubt in my mind about that one, Rob. I always think about the saying: "Science can explain how everything works, but Science can't explain why anything exists." Without having to think hard I can remember at least a half-dozen times in an airplane when something saved my butt when it didn't deserve to be saved. And my blind date for sixty years, plus four sons, nine grandsons, eight granddaughters, four great-granddaughters and one great-grandson -- none of that was accidental.

I agree; it's also the principal reason why, though I obviously fear pain or being disabled, as much as I guess does everybody else, I have little or no conscious fear of dying. Don't seek it, but don't think I fear it, either. If anything, I see it as my one shot at seeing my wife again.

Sounds like a wonderful family you have!

Rob

[RSL]

It is! And, like you, I don't fear dying at all, but I'd just as soon not have it hurt.

[Rob C]

Isn't this a wonderful space? From Linda Gail telling us what she really, really wants to the deepest personal emotions of some of us posters. Where else, and so naturally?

Rob C