I know you’re gone but thought of you today. I was very stressed earlier, and put on my headphones and have been selecting iTunes downloads one by one for the past hour. My heart rate has gone down. Jim and Zoe are upstairs sleeping. You’d laugh at what I’m listening to, now a dirge, Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.
When I was in junior and high school I sang, played and listened to Dylan, Mason, and groups like Peter, Paul and Mary. I now have a vintage songbook from PP&M I got on e-Bay and it means so much to me. You always said I liked dirges. I’m now listening to Over the Rainbow, new version by Iz. I think of you somewhere over the rainbow, way up high. And I still say they’re ballads.
Joan Baez is now singing Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” Miss you, Mom.
Cooking with Dee 
Over the Rainbow by Iz is one of my all time favorites. Good choice. And yes, it’s a ballad, not a dirge!
I didn’t mean to say that it was “new,” only newer than the version Judy Garland sang in the 1939 movie. Dee
I’m sorry to say I got all choked up buying a music globe for my friend’s 25th wedding anniversary last weekend…
Good thing I could write out all the personalization or who knows what kind of mess I would have ended up with! (it played “Oh, how we danced, on the night we were wed…”) Guess I’m just turning into a sentimental fool – but continued sincere sympathy for your loss, my dear.