Who remembers this folk song? If you Google the song, you'll find that at least 7 different groups or artists sang these lyrics. And your point is ...? Hopefully, I will actually think of a point before I'm ready to keyboard another sentence. Pete Seeger wrote the lyrics to this song in the 1950's when he was under investigation by Senator Joe McCarthy and the lovable foks on the House UnAmerican Committee.
We sang this song at a camp that I attended in 8th grade usually on the last night of camp (and right before "I'm leaving on a jet plane"). I'm sure you get the picture. This is a song that has a lot of different meanings for different people. It's particularly relevant today because it peaks with some words about soldiers and graveyards.
For me, it symbolizes all the things in my life that are gone: the promise of youth, daughters who want to sit on my lap, coaching youth soccer when my kids were playing bunch ball, family dinners without cell phones and text messages, and so on and so forth. Mostly, it makes me realize how much I miss the wonderful times that I had watching my children grow up and how grateful I am that I took so many videos along the way.
I created funny compilation videos for my daughter's Bat Mitzvahs. At each event, I had lots of friends come up to me and lament the fact that they hadn't spent much time videotaping their kids. These videos have brought tremendous joy to everyone in our family, including my kids and my parents. So today's message is a pretty simple one: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GREAT VIDEO CAMERA THAT TAKES GOOD PICTURES IN LOW LIGHT AND ISN'T GATHERING DUST IN YOUR CLOSET. Even when all of your flowers are gone, you'll be able to enjoy them.
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