Life is Sweet

This one is for the girl,
who says she’s unlucky in love:
You deserve to have the world at your feet
And if one person, one man could be it enough,
Then I wish it could be me, I wish it could be me.

This one is for the boy,
who’s daddy never had time for him:
I wish I could build you a little house
for you to hide in
I’d give you back your summers,
I’d give you back all your summers,
You still have summers...

Life is sweet, life is sweet,
Life is sweet,
Bitter sweet
And the days keep rolling along

This one is for the girl,
Who says those voices in her head,
never leave her alone:
Don’t listen to your teacher,
you’re not crazy,
you’re just smarter than the rest of them.
Paint a picture,
Write a song,
Tell your story,
Bang a gong!

Life is sweet, life is sweet,
Life is sweet,
Bitter sweet
And the days keep rolling along

This one is for the boy,
who’s not allowed to be part of the game:
You don’t need those losers,
I think you’re beautiful.
And you meet a girl
and you fall in love
and it doesn’t work out
Well, it won’t be the first time,
and they don’t make a cure for that

So you eat your breakfast,
read a book,
open up you window,
be alone...

Life is sweet, life is sweet,
Life is sweet,
Bitter sweet
And the days keep rolling along
Rolling along...

- Maria McKee)

Another week

This is my mom and dad. I took this photo a couple of weeks ago when we went walking in the dunes. For my mother it was the longest walk in months, since she got a new hip in May last year. She's doing great now. By the way, my plan to take her to her old neighbourhood last week worked well. She was delighted. She kept on talking about her childhood memories and we had a great dinner at this very nice restaurant. It's good to see her like that. I see her worrying too often.

About this new year: still so far so good. Sorry that I keep coming back with this subject, maybe it's just me counting my blessings before things turn bad. Well, I actually got a raise this week! Can you believe that? Just a few months before a lot of people at my work and maybe me will get fired, my boss gives me a raise. As a 'token of appreciation', he told me. A humble 'thank you' on my side was in order, don't you think? Heehee!

It's going well with the concerts too. Yesterday I saw a very odd concert of a Dutch band called Solo. The audience had to wear headphones in order to hear the band play... ! Tonight I'm going to see the cd-presentation of Haarlem's own Kirsten (check her out on www.kirstenonline.nl ). Tomorrow I'm going to see a double-concert of the French band Encre and the Danish Kitty Wu. And than Monday I'm going to my big hero Elvis Costello (check your local newspaper for my interview with him...)! What a week.

Love, Richard