June 11, 2002 - Tuesday
Rainy day.
Of course it started to rain today five minutes before I had to leave for work. Sigh.
Always happens.
I thought I'd be different and write about something else today.
My husband is a big fan of classical music. Sadly, I don't appreciate it, most of
the time it bores me silly. I have made it my mission to introduce my husband to
many other kinds of music. Ones that I like. Some of them he has taken too, like
country music and some Canadian groups or singers. The Barenaked Ladies are a particular
favourite of ours and he likes Burton Cummings too.
Yesterday, I introduced my husband to Scottish Music. Several years ago I ordered
a cd by Andy Stewart. He is a famous Scottish singer, he sings in broad Scots and
his songs have a good sense of humor, usually.
Of course, Fumihiko couldn't understand a word. He kept asking me if he was singing
in English. "Sort of" I replied. Then, A Scottish Soldier
came on. I told him that the song always makes me cry, and sure enough, 1 minute
later, I was bawling my eyes out. I don't know if Fumihiko understood enough of
the song to know why. It's about a soldier who fights in many wars, but dies in
a foreign land, not in his own Scottish hills. It always makes me think how my Mum felt living
in a land that wasn't her own, and now, the song even applies to me as I live in
Japan, far away from my Canadian Rockies.
After that song, I played a couple of more cheerful songs and decided that a small
taste of Andy Stewart would be better for Fumihiko than over-exposing him to the
genre.
And that's all I have to say for today! Night night.
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