Ghost Stories and Birthdays
I'm such a nerd. As usual on a Saturday night, I'm listening to a national radio show broadcast that is all country classics. It is so good tonight, featuring all these ghost story songs that I haven't heard in years and sound clips from various Halloween shows. It makes me think about how many old country songs really do have that as a theme, from "The Highwayman" to "Marie LaVoe", "Wildfire" and the Charlie Daniels song about the mean old man. The theme of many of them is that someone meets a ghost who is either helpful or vengeful and then only finds out later that they were a ghost. The other most popular story is a heartbroken spirit always looking for their lost partner. Hmm-I wonder if there would be so many songs like that to choose from in another genre? I don't think there would be. After all, many of these songs are sort of an out growth of traditional oral story telling and ghost stories have always been a big part of that tradition.
Sort of an appropriate show to listen to tonight, on a night when I always think about what could have been. I feel like putting a candle in the window for the spirits at Halloween every year, especially tonight when we would have carved our pumkin when I was small. So, Happy Birthday, Mom. I still haven't forgotten. How awesome would you have found it that tonight is Fall Back? I remember that always making you really happy when it actually fell on your birthday, though it is always close to it every year.
Sometime I need to write down the one time I have seen something odd that seemed ghost like. Perhaps I will do that on Halloween this year. This should remind me to do so!
Sort of an appropriate show to listen to tonight, on a night when I always think about what could have been. I feel like putting a candle in the window for the spirits at Halloween every year, especially tonight when we would have carved our pumkin when I was small. So, Happy Birthday, Mom. I still haven't forgotten. How awesome would you have found it that tonight is Fall Back? I remember that always making you really happy when it actually fell on your birthday, though it is always close to it every year.
Sometime I need to write down the one time I have seen something odd that seemed ghost like. Perhaps I will do that on Halloween this year. This should remind me to do so!