How to get started this morning.

Last night’s sleep was troubled.  Dreams, all unpleasant, but those have come infrequently lately.  I realize that each of us has a young vulnerable child within.  What child does not have a nightmare from time to time?  It’s a big world and there are monsters about!

But morning comes, daylight and opportunities to play, to work.  That is true even in the most severe of circumstances.  If one is patient, aware, beauty and meaning can be discovered, even if the discovery is internal in the imagination.

This tune by Barry White is enough for our journey today.  The lyric serves to make the point that life is about “we.”  There is no “I” apart from “you.”  Naturally the formula is obvious when it comes to the quintessential male-female attraction, the collaboration catalyzed by nature –  romance.  The possibilities that life affords are discovered in, through others…  Reality is a joint creation.

Barry White is missed.   Barry White, September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003.

Yes, he deviates from the official version at the end, — after all, it is his song.

You’re The First, My Last, My Everything

By Barry White

My first, my last, my everything,
And the answer to all my dreams.
You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star.
My kind of wonderful, that’s what you are.

I know there’s only, only one like you
There’s no way they could have made two.
You’re, you’re all I’m living for
Your love I’ll keep for evermore.
You’re the first, my last, my everything.

In you I’ve found so many things,
A love so new, only you could bring.
Can’t you see if you,
You’ll make me feel this way,
You’re like a first morning dew on a brand new day.

I see so many ways that I can love you,
‘Till the day I die….
You’re my reality, yet I’m lost in a dream.
You’re my first, my last, my everything.

[instrumental]

I know there’s only one, only one like you
There’s no way they could have made two.
Girl, you’re my reality.
But I’m lost in a dream,
You’re the first, you’re the last, my everything.

Lyrics by Tony Sepe, Barry White, P. Sterling Radcliffe.