I’M the one…
…who drifted away…not Skip or Mark or Shelley or Richard or ad infinitum…ME, *I* am the one who drifted off…on the other hand NOBODY fought to keep me…as for lately, only one (one!) Facebook “friend” has checked in with me so far…but Rick has been in touch as well, SLR too…Lou? not so much…I KNOW his daughter is a handful, it must be extremely difficult to have a handicapped child…I don’t have one but I have BECOME one–and that is very VERY bad…
as for the proposed Musical Tribute to Skip, I doubt that I’ll be a part of it…I kinda don’t wanna see Shelley again…there’s no point as far as I can figure…If only she hadn’t aged so well…(sigh) it’s WAY past time I learn to BE HERE NOW…even though “now” often sucks…
I went to work after Dinner, it was hard to focus; harder than usual that is…just about all I could think of was Shelley…I was wondering how/why we drifted apart when I realized *I* drifted away…every time I would leave a band and join another one, I would leave one group of people behind and join another one…from the very beginning (Koinonia) right through the present day…I’m not in a band currently, and I feel almost totally friendless…
After Koinonia, I hooked up with Mark and his friends, which led to (and briefly mixed with) Skip and his friends–that’s where Shelley comes in…MESA (the band Skip and I were in together) led to a group called SPICE…Tim, one of MESA’S drummers, introduced me to Joe…I think they worked together…Joe introduced me to his sister Linda…I’m not up to talking about HER…A former broadcasting school classmate put an ad the Sunday paper to get in touch with me and that’s how I ended up in The Last Chance Band the first time–or was it the SECOND time?…anyway that led to the Deserters/Substitute and yet another group of friends…so ya see, it was I who drifted from one social circle to another…although like I said, nobody fought to keep me–at least that’s the way *I* remember it…