{john lennon & polaroids}

So they weren't really taken with a Polaroid camera, just my Nikon but they have a polaroid-ish feel to them I think. Anyway. This is what I was doing when I should have been folding laundry today. I have a natural ability to find anything and everything to do when I should be cleaning, folding laundry and fixing supper, among other things. It's almost like a Super Power, although it doesn't really do a whole lot of good for anyone and all of my work is still waiting for me when I am done wasting time. There are worse habits to have though, right? Yeah, well, I pretty much have those, too... Oh well. So now I am going to go listen to some of this while I waste even more time or get some things done, we'll see.

Today is the 30-year anniversary of John Lennon's death. Thirty years. Crazy. And even more crazy might be that I remember something that happened thirty years ago...wow, I feel so old. For me, it is not one of those; "I remember where I was when..." things, I was young so my memories are not good. I do have hazy memories of it though; of my parents talking about it and pictures of his face on the front page of the newspaper and my dad playing the Beatles albums in the basement. My dad is and always has been a big Beatles fan. We grew up listening to the Beatles and I feel like their music is embedded in my childhood. And I grew up to be a fan myself. I could never, ever pick a favorite song or a favorite album, just too many to choose from but this would be somewhere at the top of my list. I do remember listening to Beautiful Boy for the first time after I had my own little boy though and I remember laying on shag carpet in our basement in the late-70's looking at this album cover . I just love how music is entwined into our lives and memories. Like I said, I could never choose a favorite, but this is what I'm loving today...

{Do you have a favorite Beatles song or song-related memory?}