Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

Anyone remember that

old Otis Redding song?

Sitting On The Dock

Of The Bay..

I think it is interesting that

long before I ever knew

that I would be living in WI..

that is where this song

came into being.

                                           I remember the first time

I heard this song.

I was in my Uncle's barn

in Pennsylvania.

My cousins and I

were prepping the barn

for the whitewashing truck

to come..

Putting feedbags over the windows,

covering the water bowls

that stood between the

cows' stanchions.

A big job.

When I heard the song..

I stopped and thought about

someone, somewhere,

that might actually

BE

sitting by the dock of the bay.

(where it was cool and lovely)

I had never seen a bay.

There aren't any bays in

the mountains where

I lived...

But Oh!  I wanted to

see

BIG WATER!

Even back then.

I guess I was a dreamer.

Eventually,

I married a man from WI..

and we bought our first tiny

little house on

Green Bay.

We didn't stay there long,

kids and jobs took us away

from that place.

Thirty years later,

we returned..

less than a mile

from our first little house..

which is long gone.

And, now, when I look

out my window..

this is what I see...

and I walk down to this..

and watch this..

become this..

And, when the sun is

gone and the skies have

turned from

pink-blue to this...

It is time to walk back to

the house..

So... tonight..

just tonight..

I am not going to work

anymore...because

I have a tendency to work

instead of enjoy.

Tonight, instead,

I am living just a little

part of the dream that

I had when I was a

 young teenager.

And I am blessed.

God is Good!

For those of you that don't

know the lyrics...

Sitting in the mornin' sun

I'll be sitting when the evenin' come

Watching the ships roll in

And then I watch 'em roll away again.

I'm sitting on the dock of the bay

Watching the tide roll away

I'm sitting on the dock of the bay

Wastin' time.

Sittin' here resting my bones

And this lonliness won't leave me alone

It's two thousand miles I roamed

Just to make this dock my home.

Now, I'm just gonna sit on the dock

of the bay,

Watchin' the tide roll away

Sittin' on the dock of the bay

Wasting time..

Yeah...gonna go waste a

little time.

Later, guys!