My Grandmother Lucille…
Well she was a piece of work… that’s for sure
Because she was tuned into a different station than most people
There was a… just a pact that she made with my mother and other people that knew her well, before she died that if there was any way she could come back, that she would. And she would do everything she could to make us realize that it was her. There have been a lot of things that have happened but…
My grandmother is around
I think she’s still around
Sometimes I can see a purple light in my peripheral vision…
and I think that’s her.
I was feeling a little blue and, I don’t know, I just decided that I was going to start to cleaning up a few things… and …intellectually I guess I thought that that would make me feel better if I tidied things up -- and in the course of straightening things up I ran across this little crossword puzzle book and I opened it up and there was a piece of paper in there that was a bible verse that my grandmother had written on a piece of paper -- and it says something about being at peace and that – that you should feel optimistic because there’s a transformation of this world. It was really interesting. And it was very interesting that it happened to be on a day when I was feeling so blue.
And the whole side of the family is that way.
I took me until I was a complete adult before I realized that other people weren’t that way. And then I took a long time and sort of ran away from it. But you go full circle in life sometimes
And you come back.
And you realize there was nothing wrong with the things you learned when you were a kid
And...
Her respect for the unknown
Her… inquisitiveness about the unknown
And how she made it ok to – to think differently than “the flock”.
I loved that about her and I’d love to tell her that.
And… that I really loved her and I didn’t know how to say that when I was so young.
My grandmother is around
I think she’s still around
Sometimes I can see a purple light in my peripheral vision…
and I think that’s her.
credits
from Under the Moon,
released August 19, 2021
Produced and arranged by Robert Feist, Ravenswork
Kid Sister Music Publishing (BMI)
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