27 Hours Around The Dreadnoughts
I don’t usually send out newsletters back to back — but for this one, *time* was of the essence!
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4:56 AM
Wide awake, no reason.
Pay bills, share download codes, shower in peace. Precious time.
6:14 AM
Wake up the kids. 27 hours til
!7:55 AM
Arrive at work, the elementary school library. Email says it’s a long meeting today.
5:15 PM
0 minutes left of work
6:30 PM
Kids in the bath
7:05 PM
Out the door to Cafe Nine!
8:00 PM - 10:30ish (Time suspends)
My Druthers, singing shanties and stomping the stage.
Next up, The Dreadnoughts — channeling rage
into three-part harmonies, backed up by every member of the crowd crowded together,
sweating in their winter jackets
as close as they could get to the singing truth:
“Come all you good workers / Beware the command / It comes down on high from the desk of a man / Who’s never held steel or torch in his hands / Roll Northumbria, Roll.”
We shed our steel and our torches and our library books and our laptop computers to sing together
My Druthers saves the day when strings break
Maybe take a quick video to “watch it on Instagram later.”
10:58 PM
Park in the driveway
3:16 AM
Switch alarm from 6:00 AM to 6:30
6:18 AM
Woken up by the cat
6:32 AM
Wake up the kids — “Mommy, what’s that?” to the stamp on my hand
7:03 AM
Cuddles on the couch with Snuggle-Puppy and Big Brother, the reasons for steel and torch and library books and laptop computers
7:55 AM
Back to work!
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Oh my gosh, thank you for the Dreadnoughts and Dear Old Stan. I have not thought of Stan Rogers in years, and it brings back such great memories.
This was such a delight! 🤘