Another Saturday Night... and Kumbaya
Another Saturday night after a long week that included a seminar today on the Fair Labor Standards Act, which actually went better than expected.
In my silly world another Saturday night means not doing much of anything. In tonight's case it meant (gasp!) cleaning the aquarium, catching up on show TV shows that I had taped during the week and eating various junk food.
Ah yes, the single life is full of such riotous joy! Trust me, after "une certain age" it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Although even at an early-twenty-something I'm not sure it was all it was cracked up to be. But that is another tale, for another time.
I do have one rant to rave on about. I have been seeing many an aspersion cast at the song Kumbaya of late.
Now I went to Girl Scout camp as a child. I loved it. Being out in the woods, the campfires, the s'mores and YES! DAMN IT! singing Kumbaya - complete with assorted hand gestures around said campfire. It was great. It is a fond memory. And I'm getting rather annoyed that my memory is finding itself stomped on by persons who sneer at that song.
Sure, it was a "warm fuzzy" but shouldn't there be such moments in life? And would it be such an awful thing if we really did put aside our difference, hold hands and sing? Would that be so awful? You can't shoot or stab somebody if you're holding hands with two other people. Kind of hard to hate when you're singing an uplifting song.
Think about it. For five minutes.. wouldn't it be nice?
Do you remember the old Coke commercial? I was a kid so I don't remember what year it was (and they re-did it later) but remember "I'd like to teach the world to sing" wherein the punchline was to buy everyone a Coke? Sure you might have made fun of it but for a minute (okay 30 seconds) I know that some people out there on their couches stopped and thought "hmmm... what if?"
Now a song is not going to solve the world's problems, they are far too complex (and screwed up) for that but I do know that on summer nights, in the woods a bunch of young girls sat around a campfire once and really thought that Kumbaya was great.
Maybe somewhere, they still do. I hope so.
In my silly world another Saturday night means not doing much of anything. In tonight's case it meant (gasp!) cleaning the aquarium, catching up on show TV shows that I had taped during the week and eating various junk food.
Ah yes, the single life is full of such riotous joy! Trust me, after "une certain age" it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Although even at an early-twenty-something I'm not sure it was all it was cracked up to be. But that is another tale, for another time.
I do have one rant to rave on about. I have been seeing many an aspersion cast at the song Kumbaya of late.
Now I went to Girl Scout camp as a child. I loved it. Being out in the woods, the campfires, the s'mores and YES! DAMN IT! singing Kumbaya - complete with assorted hand gestures around said campfire. It was great. It is a fond memory. And I'm getting rather annoyed that my memory is finding itself stomped on by persons who sneer at that song.
Sure, it was a "warm fuzzy" but shouldn't there be such moments in life? And would it be such an awful thing if we really did put aside our difference, hold hands and sing? Would that be so awful? You can't shoot or stab somebody if you're holding hands with two other people. Kind of hard to hate when you're singing an uplifting song.
Think about it. For five minutes.. wouldn't it be nice?
Do you remember the old Coke commercial? I was a kid so I don't remember what year it was (and they re-did it later) but remember "I'd like to teach the world to sing" wherein the punchline was to buy everyone a Coke? Sure you might have made fun of it but for a minute (okay 30 seconds) I know that some people out there on their couches stopped and thought "hmmm... what if?"
Now a song is not going to solve the world's problems, they are far too complex (and screwed up) for that but I do know that on summer nights, in the woods a bunch of young girls sat around a campfire once and really thought that Kumbaya was great.
Maybe somewhere, they still do. I hope so.
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