Hey Jude

As I was walking past The Railway pub Saturday night I heard the live band singing "Hey Jude." So I stopped in and watched people with their arms lifted high, swaying to the music. A lot of those people might not even have been born when Hey Jude came out. Well, the darkness is kind, maybe they were :)

Anyway, I'm in a kind of "Hey Jude" mood this morning. It was a very wet weekend. Took the dogs out yesterday afternoon as it seemed the skies might clear but ten minutes into the walk it came pouring down again. I looked for a shelter--we were down by the pond, watching folks race their little motorized boats--but there wasn't any except for overhanging trees. They provided a bit of shelter and then the rain stopped. So I set off at a fast pace, hoping both the dogs and I would dry off. It started raining again about 5 minutes from home. I had mostly dried, dogs hadn't and they had a nice bath last night when we got home.

Earlier in the day I'd gone to church in Weston. There was also a huge T4 concert going on by the beach. Probably about 30000 people descended upon the town, I didn't recognize any of the names. My rock concert days ended about 6 years after the Beatles split up. All I noticed about yesterday was the chock-a-block traffic, that two of our speakers were late because they'd been stuck on the M-5 motorway for 2 hours, and I was glad that I was in the place I was in and not down on the beach.

But this morning I feel nostalgic and so I'm posting these lyrics that keep rolling around in my head:

Take a sad song and make it better....
And anytime you feel the pain,
hey jude, refrain,
Dont carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

I'm off to make my world a little warmer, starting with a 45-minute workout with Leslie Sansone. Get those endorphins moving and chase the blues away. The sun is actually shining, the sky is blue. Hope it stays that way, Sheila and I are off to Wells to see the cathedral (a real one, not a tin one) this afternoon.