Nobody Wins When You’re Down
Nobody Wins
—When you’re feeling under the weather. I had one of those days today. It was the first beautiful day we’ve had since last winter, got up to 82 degrees, so I mowed the lawn…but I lost two of the rose bushes my dad planted years ago. (They fall over my fence) It was just their time. I could only muster cutting down half of them, then I quit. I want to be tender about it…does that make sense?
No, it doesn’t.
But that wasn’t what put me in such a sad mood. Silly things can throw you off. Tonight, it was a song I was writing. A lullaby. It was for a beautiful little baby girl that has been born to another writer friend of mine who lives with his wife in South Korea. They email me pictures, and she is just the most adorable baby. I have been working on it for weeks in my spare time, and I want it to be perfect, so of course, I keep fooling around with it. 
Anyway, I realized in the song, that I was really writing a song for the baby girl I never had, and it overwhelmed me with loss. Funny I know, but certain notes on the piano, certain keys, can touch the human soul. I quit working on it because I just couldn’t stand the tears. I was actually writing a lullaby for the baby girl I would never hold….But hopefully, my friend will sing my little lullaby to her little cherub.
I can only hope I can make it singable enough. Because, I’m a nobody. Nobody will ever hear this song but this woman and her husband. Who knows if they will even like it? As Joni Mitchell once said in a song…
“Nobody stopped to hear him, though he played so sweet and high
They knew he had never been on their TV, so they passed his music by
I meant to go over and ask for a song, maybe put on a harmony
But the one-man band, by the quick-lunch stand, he was playing real good for free…”
Joni Mitchell: Not many of you remember her I bet.
So, I quit two things today. I’m not starting a half-ass remark about anything blog related tonight because I probably wouldn’t finish it.
What I can do, I did. I offered you this great video made by George Carlin, which should be mandatory viewing for all high school seniors.
I know…Fat chance.
Enjoy!
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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I remember Joni from my earlier laps around the sun. Favorites were Clouds and Both Sides Now coming out of the speakers via an AM radio in a 1964 Chevy II convertible, top down and cruising. 🙂
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Now that’s a great memory! I used to sing her songs in the car on my four-hour drives trip homes from college.
Joyanna Adams
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Carlin delivers off the cuff and Joyanna tweaks the words to her song, perfecting, polishing, regretting.
My heart is sad along with you, my dear friend. I did have a daughter. She is alive and well but I cannot see her. I cannot talk to her. I cannot cuddle her and touch her sweet face. And I can’t even write a song. My tears join yours, and I have no doubt at all that many other people share the same sadness.
But, we all have a cross to bear. None of us sought it. Some of us crumble under the weight and have to get up again, shoulder it and ‘move forward’, ‘putting it behind us’. We don’t move and it never gets to be behind, does it.
When your song is finished, I hope you send a video of you singing it. And/or, put it here. Let us all share.
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Thanks amfortas. If I can get a decent recording…I might.
Joyanna Adams
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