Note to Self

My birthday was yesterday, and (is this related?) lately I have taken to listening to The Moody Blues in the morning before work, especially their song You and I, which I follow with Neil Young's plaintive song by the same name.

Open up your eyes see a lifetime fly
Open up and let the light back in

In my i tunes alphabetized library suddenly songs of the same name have appeared side-by-side. I wonder if these songs are dangerous, with their connected messages and winding paths to places off-limits. I never know until it's too late. I add things to the "do not do" list after the damage is done these days. 1. Don't sort through old photographs. 2. Don't drink too much wine 3. Don't pressure son to buy pot. HA! 4. Don't isolate yourself compulsively. 5. 6. 7.

Following modern folk wisdom which I internally pre-ridicule I "get out and do things". Go to dinner. Call a friend. Tidy up.

What will be our last thought, 
Do you think it's coming soon,
Will it be of comfort 
Or the pain of a burning wound? 

All we are trying to say 
Is we are all we've got. 
You and me just cannot fail 
If we never, never stop.