DAY 71 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

 Good Morning, Class of '64

Coming Home - Rumara Jewett - http://dmna.ny.gov/news/?id=1280763028

“Though a lifetime of listening to
the music of the world has passed,
even now the tone of the rain on
the roof of my home is the sweetest
sound I have ever heard.”
Kensi Brianne Smith

Coming Home - Leslie White

“It's a thing to see when
a boy comes home.”
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath

Coming Home - Susan Jenkins

"The thrill of coming home
has never changed."
Guy Pearce

Coming Home - Susan Tino Santillo

“There's nothing half so pleasant
as coming home again.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Lost in the Foothills - Unknown

“The place where you continually return
for love and acceptance—that's home.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, &
Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Coming Home - Tim Loughner

If you ventured back to the little town at the head of the valley over the Memorial Day weekend, you probably had a wonderful time visiting with your many friends and relatives. You might have taken in some or all of the festivities that the Valley Head Homecoming has to offer, and you likely feasted like a king on home cooking and picnic fare.

But did you give any attention, as you drove in and out of the upper valley, to the Dame's Rocket blooming on the banks and roadside? Did you notice, at all, the pinks, and purples and whites putting on a show just for you?

As you passed the little white church a short distance out of town, did the field full of Dame's Rocket get your attention? Passing by, if you drove with your windows down, hopefully you breathed deeply the scented air and experienced the sensational aroma of the Dames.

They can be aggressive growers in the garden, spreading rapidly and hiding other more submissive plants. That alone might make them unwanted garden guests, but for the beauty of spring bloom and aromatic bliss, there is nothing like a Dame. In the upper valley, at homecoming time, they grow in abundance welcoming weary travelers home.

There is Nothing Like a Dame
From the 1949 Broadway musical,
"South Pacific", and the 1958 film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_Nothing_Like_a_Dame
South Pacific - 1958

"be it ever so humble,
there's no place like home"
Valley Head Homecoming Parade

Home Sweet Home &
There's No Place Like Home Medley
This piece is a medley of two tunes,
"Home, Sweet Home" written in 1823 by
John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
and "There's No Place Like Home", a 1968
Christmas song written by Sammy Cahn and
recorded by Glen Campbell on his
"That Christmas Feeling" album.
 So, the Christmas references were
purely intentional by the authors.
Kristina Austin Scarcelli

“Home is where somebody notices
when you are no longer there. ”
Aleksandar Hemon
The Lazarus Project

Coming Home - Terry Peasley

Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans,
it's honoring those who lost their lives.
Veterans had the fortune of coming home.
For us, that's a reminder of when we come
home we still have a responsibility to serve.
It's a continuation of service that honors
our country and those who fell defending it.
Pete Hegseth

 When the Angels Carry Me Home

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

I fly away to heaven and I won't fall
When the angels carry me home
I want to see Jesus first of all
When the angels carry me home

When the angels carry me home
When the angels carry me home
I want to see Jesus first of all
When the angels carry me home

No more sorrow and no more pain
When the angels carry me home
I ride that heavenly glorious train
When the angels carry me home

When the angels carry me home
When the angels carry me home
I want to see Jesus first of all
When the angels carry me home

I walk Thy highway leading to heaven
When the angels carry me home
I see Jesus waiting for me in heaven
When the angels carry me home

When the angels carry me home
When the angels carry me home
I want to see Jesus first of all
When the angels carry me home

“As truth be told,
homecoming never gets old.”
Hlovate

Soldier Coming Home - John Bollman

“I'm home and safe and filled with the
comfort of being somewhere I've already been.
The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable
and everyone makes me feel like a champion.
And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”
Miguel Syjuco
Ilustrado

Coming Home - Kaiser

“How often have I lain beneath rain
on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
William Faulkner

Coming Home - Richard Robinson

“The ache for home lives in all of us.
The safe place where we can go as
we are and not be questioned.”
Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Coming Home - Richard Corley