Girl Friday #2: For Get Up and Go Girls

I realized recently that many of the women I'm fondest of or closest to share at least one life characteristic: at one point or another, they started over, like yours truly.

Starting over is NEVER easy. But sometimes the only thing to do is to just turn the damn page, already. My mother did it, when my dad died. My sister and I both did it, with little kids in tow. A greater number of my friends did it, friends who share the same parenting and other values that I do. We all did it, and survived, and many wonderful women I meet now through this blog are doing it, recreating their lives without the nasty aftertaste of a bad relationship.

It's a wonderful thing. Sure, it can get pretty scary and downright lonely sometimes. Usually, however, in some way, it's worth it.

This song is for all those women who are struggling with, managing through, or riding the wave of massive self-motivated change in their lives. It's for all of you who have had to tolerate pompous, arrogant blowhards or been victims of your own kindness toward cunning emotional vampires. Whatever brings you to liberate yourselves will fade in the light thrown by your own sizzling comet. Go supernova.

(Stormy-looking picture by Shannon from our 2003 trip to OBX.)



Blow Big Wind
(Ooh! Ooh! Click on the title to hear Laurie Lewis do the whole thing!
And here's a challenge: I may be messing up some of the lyrics for the second verse, and I couldn't find 'em online. If you can figure 'em out I'll think of something special just for YOU. Unless, of course, you're Laurie Lewis, because, well, unfair advantage ok? )

When you first claimed my heart
I was starved for understanding
So I planted a garden where none grew before
But the seeds would not take hold
In this harsh and barren land
And the only peace I found was in the eye of the storm

So Blow Big Wind, like the storm on the sea
Blow, big wind, you can't shake me

(fiddle solo)

Well I've been I guess I've been a ?
Or maybe just a fool
To ever think the storms would ever cease
But I just craved your touch
And tho the summers were short
They'd always bring sweet release

So blow, big wind, like the storm on the sea
Blow big wind, you can't shake me

(mando solo)

Well now I've pulled up my stakes
Packed up my bags
Tho' I can't stop my heart from grievin'
When the next storm comes rollin' in it won't catch me
Cause everything is over by believin'

So blow, big wind, like the storm on the sea
Blow, big wind, you can't shake me
You can't shake me