Moves like Jagger

Quarter to four AM and I’m listening the “Kids Rock” on Pandora. A bit of a surprise but I share Pandora with my daughter and I guess when she has our grandsons listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Minions singing YMCA, or “What the Fox Say?” it switches my channel gets there so I didn’t have Gabriel Fuare to greet me when I revved my computer up to upload my latest sleeping-waking thoughts.

I was destined to wake up early anyway because Claudia asked it I wanted her to set the alarm for 5:30 to watch the Moon’s eclipse this morning. I was afraid that the clouds might obscure it but when I walked into the computer room a bright moonlight was shining through my porch door onto the floor. Cool. Oooh, now I’ve got Dynomite playing by “Kidz Bop.” I just went to their big show out at Bayfront festival park with the grandsons a couple weeks ago. They’re touring show. Claudia and my daughter got called up to dance during one of their numbers. I shot a lousy video of it on my cellphone. Its one of the zillions of photos/videos that has nearly ground my phone to a halt because of all the memory they are hogging. It means I’ll need to take a day to figure out how to download the lot somewhere else so I can shoot another zillion of them over the next year or two and eat up the memory all over again.

Ah, but this is not the post I sought out to write when I jumped out of bed. That one is coming up. This one just fits into the “Harry’s Diary” category. I keep that one up to: ONE, help me remember what was going on in my life at the time I posted other reflections on the world and Education in Duluth and TWO, offer some proof that this finger happy old curmudgeon has a real life outside of the computer and my public kvetching.

Now that I’ve had a good dose of rocking to wake me up its time to switch back to some classical music while I pontificate about the Presidents of the United States. Then it will be onto a lively spiritual at our church men’s club. I’m today’s designated song leader and I’ve chosen Every time I feel the Spirit. I hope all the other old guys can keep up with me. Our guest will be a long time Duluth Principal, Richard Carlson, who just wrote and published a children’s book. In the small world department, author Carlson’s daughter Mary Anne is attending seminary with Claudia. She’s an educator (retired) too.

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty