Siggy’s Blurbs

“You can neglect the whole world, but don’t neglect your mate.”  I don’t know exactly where that quote came from.  I know it is a paraphrase.  I do not even know how good a one it is but anyway that ran through my head today.

The thought that came to me right away is we can spend so much time on our jobs or outside tasks and neglect the person we live with.  No one hears as an epithet, “He worked hard and long at his job.”

Sure it is important to do well at your work outside your house but never neglect, in the process, the one closest to you.  Rather neglect your work than her/him.

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Is Health Care a right?  Should everyone have access to health care?  I find it interesting of all the discussions and debating going on in our Congress  no one is saying that companies covering health care should stop making billions of dollars of profit.

I have read of all the countries mandating health care for everyone not one is allowing companies to make a profit providing health insurance.  Is health care a right or is it a privilege only some should have?  If it is a right, then we have to stop the obscene profit other companies are making in this country providing health insurance.

And I find it interesting there is no talk about that?!

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The headline in our regional paper said our area might get blanketed by a snowstorm.  I read further and the forecast said at most it would be slightly under an inch of snow.

I had to laugh:  That was a snowstorm?  That was a dusting.  Other areas of the country that consistently get a lot more snow than us would also laugh at that forecast.  Why do weather forecasters here “cry wolf” all the time?

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The music is always about the feelings it engenders.  At an intuitive level.  In songs, there always has to be a balance between the the music (the instrumental part) and the lyrics.  In the best songs the music reinforces the lyrics and the lyrics reinforce the music.

Sure you can fall in love just with the music.  And never care about the lyrics.  “Baker Street” is such an example for me.  I have no idea what the lyricist is talking about but I love the song because the music is so strong but those songs are the exceptions.

And sometimes I love a line here and there of a song, love the music and fall in love with the whole song.  “My Back Pages” written by Dylan and performed by The Byrds is such a song.  I absolutely love that song.

When I listen to a new song it is always the music I listen to first and then the lyrics unless it is a great song and I capture both at the same time.

Usually if I like the music of a song, I eventually listen to the lyrics to see if they have substance and are well written.  I may dismiss the song if the lyrics have no substance and are not well put together.  It all depends how strong the music is.

Nevertheless, it is always about the music.  And that comes first.  Then I pay attention to the lyrics.

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