dear andrea:
you are sweet,
i love your smell;
you've the best feet,
lets get timmy out da well.
i value our time,
our time together;
you allow me to shine,
i will love you forever.
once i was lost,
but you showed me home;
now with my heart crossed,
you are mine alone.
i made up this rhyme,
with you on my mind;
it was just in time,
totally one of a kind.
now back to work,
to work i must;
must not go berserk,
and try not to fuss.
do you mind if i spend my second blog randomly ripping on america for a sec? remember back in the late nineties that cd that came out titled 'family values tour'? it had all the hit songs from '98 on it. i wonder what about those songs were based on family values? i would have liked to have been there when the marketing gurus got together and decided the name for the cd. where they like..."hey, we got all these great bands that came from great families with great songs with family lyrics! i know, lets go with 'family values tour'!" well, when i think of great family role models, i think more of leave it to beaver and lassie than i do korn or rammstein. limp biscuit and orgy...real family like. what a joke. what is wrong with america. what is wrong with our society. what happened to our families.
i feel violated. but, our history paints our picture for us. the industrial revolution took dad out of the home. the womens equality movement took mom out of the home. now double income families are a necessity in the blue collar world. people are working farther and farther away from the home. if you work in the corporate world, your time is the companies time, and they want you 24/7. there isnt much left to give here. kids are left to fend for themselves. parents, when together, spend more time fighting than enjoying one another. they give all they got at work and then get home to the ones they love and have nothing left, so then come the arguments and yelling and fighting and anger and disgust and yada yada yada. then the cycle begins of poor family values. kids learn everything from watching mom and dad. they watch and learn. children pick up our habits, good or bad. they will eventually reciprocate them to their own spouse some day.
im reading a great book by rick johnson called 'better dads, stronger sons'. rick is a great author, and i recommend this book to every father in america. so, pass on that cd, and go for the book, lest we become lemmings of our culture.
