It’s triple digits temps around here again. Multiple triple digits already. And multiple more to come. As a next-door neighbor used to say, “It’s brutal.” And if you don’t have the convenience of modern air conditioning, I can’t imagine you’ll rest easy when it’s 80 degrees at night.
In order for me to rest easy it’s gotta be cool at night.
Maybe that’s some sort of connection to being born in Colorado. I don’t know. But I DO know I’m a big fan of the guy who invented air conditioning that cools a whole house. Because triple digits and weather just ain’t cool, man. (pun completely intended)
Speaking of cool. Have you ever read the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?” It’s a classic by Robert Frost.
And have you ever seen the movie, “Telefon” with Charles Bronson and Donald Pleasance?
Since Robert Frost was born in 1874 and the movie Telefon debuted 103 years later, you might think there wouldn’t be a connection. But some lines from Mr. Frost’s poem made their way into the movie. In fact, they were code words. And when secret sleeper agents answered their phone and heard them, they’d be triggered into doing terrible things.
But the poem is about a peaceful pause alongside a snowy wooded area during a sleigh ride home.
And the last words are the famous ones used in the movie:
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.” ~Robert Frost
OK, as long as we’re on this poetic ride, I’ll share a few lines from William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” A blurb I read, that described what he’s writing about said the poem “portrays the restorative power of nature.” And that it “recounts the speaker’s encounter with a field of daffodils, which brings a sense of calm and tranquility.”
“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
Yeah, you really get your words’ worth from Mr. Wordworth. We don’t talk like that anymore. But I’d much rather hear that kind of talk than the f-bomb-riddled stuff you find literally everywhere these days.
Here’s the last poetic punch I’ll throw at you. I wrote these lyrics in the song “Rest Easy.”
Rest easy dear child.
May your dreams all be mild.
Rest easy dear one,
For this time of your life is soon gone.
Listen to a sample of the song here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV4pKjLJWgg)
And then I know you’ll want to scoot on in to the Rhyme and Reason Bookshop to get your special kids their very own Lullabye Bye coloring, drawing songbook. By the way, you’ll find a link, in the book, to download all the songs. AND they’re included in the cost of the book. So that makes ’em Fa-Ree.
Download your copy of the book in the Rhyme and Reason Bookshop right now.
Stay tuned…
