~Upstream and Down~

My son shared a Kenny Chesney song with me today… Don't Blink. "Listen to this, Mom," Dave said. Then he left me to listen, and went back down stairs to continue unpacking. He's home from college for the summer and is trying to reestablish his nook in the basement. I don't think he expected to find me in tears when he came back to the kitchen. But the song moved me… a cliché of a song really… and that's not meant to take anything away from it.  It was a "time flies" song, and that theme's been done to death. Remember Turn Around ? *Turn around and you're two, Turn around and you're four, Turn around and you're a young girl going out of my door. Tempus fugit . Whether you're having fun or not. But there's no reasoning with emotion. There was something about the music and the lyrics, something about the YouTube video portrayal of an old man of 102 exhorting us to love… that hit me. Dave hugged me. "Sorry," he...