My daughter happens to share a birthday with John Lennon. So does my 10 year old lab retriever. Lennon would have been 70 this year, MH turned 3 and Schaefer (the dog) turned 10. It was a special day full of joy, happiness, doggie treats and Beatles music.
October 9 is also exceptionally cool to me because I grew up literally losing my hearing to the Beatles. I intentionally learned to sing Beatles songs (and later Lennon solo tracks) in their intentionally Americanized-British inflections so that I would lose my own deep southern accent. It worked for the most part. I also lost partial hearing in one of my ears from listening a little too loudly in order to drown out the noises from our small house.
So, I have a great appreciation and love for all things Beatles but especially Lennon (even though I hear his music differently these days for many different physical and metaphysical reasons than I did when I was 10).
Ian has the best Lennon Birthday post I've read this year... click over and read the whole thing:
John Lennon, hero o’ mine. : roots.lab: "Anyway, thank you, John Lennon. Through some alchemy of temperament (courage, desperate need for connection, generosity of spirit) and talent in your medium, you were able to broadcast the unsayable that’s inside. Turbulence, mess, ferocity, piercing insight, stubborn hope, bitterness, joy, fearlessness (and fearfulness), all this and much more sprawls across your music. "
Thanks for the memories and reminders, Ian.
