DAY 127 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

GOOD MORNING, CLASS OF '64

The Happy Family - Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller

Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring

There's a story told of a very gentle boy
And the girl who wore his ring
Through the wintery snow
The world they knew was warm
For their hearts were full of spring

As the days grew old
And the nights passed into time
And the weeks and years took wing
Gentle boy, tender girl
Their love remained still young
For their hearts were full of spring

Then one day they died
And their graves were side by side
On a hill where robins sing
And they say violets
Grow there the whole year round
For their hearts were full of spring

Spring Couple in Love - Karen Tarleton

This is your story. 

It is a story that circles the globe 

at every latitude and longitude where people exist. 

It is told in every country, on every continent. 

Every household, every family tells and retells 

this story from one generation to the next. 

There's no end to the story and no stopping it. 

It is a good story. Who would want to?

As your days grow old and 

your nights pass into time and

your days and weeks take wing,

may your world be warm

and your heart full of spring.

Old Couple - Batosail

Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
(The same man who wrote this song
wrote about getting your kicks on Route 66.)
1958 original version of this song
Written by Bobby Troup
Inspired the Four Freshmen
and the Beach Boys
Bobby Troup - 1958

 
 Their Hearts Were Full of Spring

The Beach Boys - 1966
a cappella

on the 

Andy Williams Show

Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
a cappella
The Four Freshmen - 1950s

I will love you always...

When your face is full of the lines 

of every smile you have ever smiled, 

of every surprise I have seen 

flash through your eyes, 

when every tear you have ever cried

 has left its mark upon your face,

I will treasure you all the more, 

because I was there to see it all.

 Ritu Ghatourey

Old Couple - Joan Breckwoldt

 

Grow Old Along With Me

 John Lennon

1980

http://www.oracleband.net/Lyrics/grow-old-with-me.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_Old_with_Me 

based on a poem 

by Robert Browning

  Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love

 
Grow old along with me
Two branches of one tree
Face the setting sun
When the day is done
God bless our love
God bless our love 

Spending our lives together
Man and wife together
World without end
World without end
 

Grow old along with me
Whatever fate decrees
We will see it through
For our love is true
God bless our love
God bless our love

Grow old along with me

Mary Chapin Carpenter - 1995

Will you love me in December as you do in May, 

Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? 

When my hair has all turned gray, 

Will you kiss me then and say, 

That you love me in December 

as you do in May?

 James Walker

Old Couple - Melilysa

From Rabbi Ben Ezra

Robert Browning

Grow old along with me! 

The best is yet to be, the last of life, 

 for which the first was made. 

Our times are in his hand who saith, 

'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; 

Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Robert Browning

Grandparents - Susanne Marie Leclair

I don't want someone who promises me the world, 

I want someone to sit on the porch with me 

and watch it go by as we grow old together.

 Tammi Post

Cute Old Couple Drawing - Danijelg

Tell Me you love me. 

Tell me I'm beautiful. 

Tell me we'll grow old together.. 

In sickness, and in health. 

Tell me that I'm still the one. 

That you need me. 

That I'm your superhero. 

Tell me you'll never let me go. 

Tell me you miss me. ... 

That's all I need.

 Hallmark Quote

Old Couple

True love isn't Romeo and Juliet 

who died together. 

It's Grandma and Grandpa 

who grew old together.

 Unknown

Old Couple - Norman Long

The love we have in our youth 

is superficial compared to the 

love that an old man has 

for his old wife. 

 Will Durant

      

POLL

Their Hearts Were Full of Spring

• The song is better with instruments.

• The song is better a cappella.

• The song is good with instruments and a cappella.

• The song is no good with instruments or a cappella.

 (The poll is in the sidebar 

to the right of your screen.)

DAY 135 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

Girl Seated by the Sea - Robert Henri

By The Sea

Emily Dickinson

I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me.

And frigates in the upper floor
Extended hempen hands,
Presuming me to be a mouse
Aground, upon the sands.

But no man moved me till the tide
Went past my simple shoe,
And past my apron and my belt,
And past my bodice too,

And made as he would eat me up
As wholly as a dew
Upon a dandelion's sleeve -
And then I started too.

And he - he followed close behind;
I felt his silver heel
Upon my ankle, - then my shoes
Would overflow with pearl.

Until we met the solid town,
No man he seemed to know;
And bowing with a mighty look
At me, the sea withdrew.

Collecting Sea Shells - Marie Green - 1900

Beyond the Sea

Bobby Darin's version of Charles Trenet's 

classic "Beyond The Sea" 

was recorded in 1959.

reaching no. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100,

 no. 15 on the US R&B Chart, 

and no. 8 in the UK Singles Chart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Sea_%28song%29 

The classic, La Mer, talks of white seagulls, 

tall wet reeds, rusty houses, and clear gulfs.

With new lyrics, "Beyond the Sea" 

talks about a man and his love.

La Mer

(The Sea)

Charles Trenet

Written by Charles Trenet 

and recorded in1946. 

It became an unexpected hit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mer_%28song%29 

POLL

Would you rather:

Go down to the sea
Go up to the mountains
Stay at home
Take a group tour
(Poll is in the side bar to the right of your screen.)

Children on the Beach - Winslow Homer

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle.
Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/sea 

 

Little Sea Bathers - Edward Henry Potthast

DAY 149 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

Good Morning, Class of ‘64

Driving on a Rainy Day (print) - Unnamed Artist

The Rainy Day

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Grey clouds and lightning bolts have been  prominent on the desktop weather for today. Now huge raindrops have made an appearance, with a temperature of 48° that will drop to 8° at some point during the day. In some mountain areas snow will fall, but no snowflakes are pictured on the three day desktop weather for our area, even with the drop in temperature. 

Why is the absence of snowflakes being questioned when it should be reason enough to shout Halleluiah? Why is that unseen weather man, who passes out reports that seem to update on their own, so mistrusted? 

Maybe if we lived in a tropical paradise with more consistent weather, we'd appreciate him a little more. But only if he were spreading sunshine all over the place, so we could put on a happy face. 

"No," he says, "Baby, the rain must fall."
Just like Longfellow: "Into each life some rain must fall".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_the_Rain_Must_Fall_%28song%29 

If Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had been living in our era, he might have written that song, Baby, The Rain Must Fall (from 1965). Do you think he would have? Would he have been a rocker? Maybe, a folk singer, do you think?
 

Wednesday Poll

Would Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

have been a rock star 

or a folk singer 

had he lived in the 1960s? 

You'll find the poll in the sidebar 

to the right of your screen.

Rhythm of the Falling Rain

Number three on the US pop chart on March 9, 1963, 

and spent two weeks at number one on the US Easy Listening chart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_of_the_Rain

Rhythm of the Falling Rain - The Cascades - 1963

 Rain Scene from The Quiet Man
1952

John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara
Graveyard Kiss

In 1598 Michel de Montaigne wrote:
 "There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."

http://jwshihan.blogspot.com/2010/12/in-1598-michel-de-montaigne-wrote-there.html 

 

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller