Dear Readers,
This is a continuation of distinct memories of past Septembers.
In 1965 The Brothers Four recorded a hit song entitled “Try To Remember”. The ballad began with these lyrics:
“Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
Where grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember and if you remember, then follow.”
I loved that song and the images it brought to mind. Years later on a September trip to visit our daughter in NYC, she treated us to a performance of the musical comedy “The Fantasticks” where this melody was sung. She had no idea how much I truly treasured this song and sharing it with her on a September afternoon.
In September, 1979 our daughter started kindergarten at Visitation BVM School in Trooper, PA. Jude rode on a small school bus to and from school. At the end of her first day, I waited for her at the end of our street. I must have stood there for over an hour waiting for that bus. Fear started to well up inside me. Where was the school bus and where was my little daughter? Reluctantly I decided to leave my post on the street and return home to call the school. (There were no cell phones in 1979.)
The school informed me that they had been attempting to contact me for about an hour. What a feeling of relief; Jude was safe and sound waiting for me in her classroom. Her teacher apologized profusely. Jude had forgotten what her school bus number was and didn’t leave when her bus was called on the loudspeaker. I’m surprised I didn’t get a speeding ticket as I raced to her school to pick her up.
More memories of other Septembers will be continued in Memories of Septembers Past, Part 3 to be posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
Until then remember to
Keep smilin’!
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