I love to go a-wandering...

FRANK WEIR
"The Happy Wanderer"

(Words by Antonia Ridge and Music by Friedrich W. Moller)

I love to go a-wandering
Along the mountain track
And as I go, I love to sing
My knapsack on my back
Val-deri, val-dera
Val-deri, val-dera
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha
Val-dera
My knapsack on my back
I love to wander by the stream
That dances in the sun
So joyously it calls to me
Come join my happy song
Val-eri, val-dera
Val-deri, val-dera
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha
Val-era
Come join my happy song
I wave my hat to all I meet
And They wave back to me
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev'ry green wood tree
Val-eri, val-dera
Val-deri, val-dera
Val-deri, val-dera
Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die
Oh, may I always laugh and sing
Beneath God's clear blue sky
Val-eri, val-dera
Val-eri, val-dera
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Ha
Val-dera
Beneath the clear blue sky
Beneath the clear blue sky”

Thanks to: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/frank_weir/the_happy_wanderer.html

Okay and alrighty now, I don’t actually go a-wandering around the mountain track, since in Florida we don’t have any mountains, a few hills, but nothing to write home about and I mean where I grew up in good ole New Jersey. Yep, we had mountains and hills and beaches and to me its topography was not that dissimilar from California in miniature, but without the extreme weather and seismology activity.

No, as pretty and memorable as the above song is, the only place I truly wander these days is in my head, better said in my mind.

Completely normal for my kind with Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia as well as now added in my so-called ‘senior moments’, kindly put lapses in fluidity of understanding when your mind has left the room!

SCARY!

Or fun?

Could be, would be, it is all in how you put a spin on it…

Gracie Allen comes to mind whenever we think of a person being harebrained, but in reality she was the brains of the team Burns, George that is, and Allen, husband and wife comedy team that enchanted and pleased audiences for decades from radio, movies, and TV with their adorable marital blissful relationship and Gracie’s acting as if she did not get the questions George would ask, but oh boy did she ever and her answers were hysterically logical, and we would all fall down laughing holding our sides…figuratively of course; although there were a few times…

Read this for more about Burns and Allen: http://www.biography.com/people/groups/george-burns-and-gracie-allen

I am not quite as clever as Gracie was, but I would like to think that I still have most of my marbles, marbles?

Interesting suggestions where that term is from please access to find out where I am coming from or is that where I have been?: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/lose-your-marbles.html

Any-who, these little mind vacations can be exhausting or refreshing; it all really depends on where they take you as in any other physical trips, ya know?

Today after my let’s get physical yesterday’s journey/walkathon, oops accidentally wrote walkathin, but that’s what my objective is, how odd that my misspelling was actually my brain telling me my reasoning for doing what I am doing, good grief, next I will be admitting that my brain is in charge, oh wait it is, of me that is!

Geez this is confusing.

One would almost think that instead of think I accidentally wrote thin, subliminally my brain is talking to my fingers and telling them what to do, WHAT????!!!!!

Of course, that’s just ridiculous, everyone’s does, don’t they?

Perhaps I was too hasty on that comment about me not losing my marbles and this is my proof that I actually am?????

On that note of asking you to never quote what I just wrote, unless you feel you must, wink, wink…allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!