45s

”Let’s Walk and Talk.”

My dad loved going to auctions and coming home with treasures he willingly shared with family, the neighbor kids, friends. It was like Christmas when he came home from a sale. One time he had a box of old 45 records. Since my sister and I had a little phonograph but no money to buy albums, we played those oldies ad nauseum.

One of the songs was, “Let’s Walk and Talk.” Don’t know who sang in that deep baritone, but I still recall all of the words. The song came to mind as I walked the loop in my ‘hood while talking on the phone the entire time. It’s a good theme for the day: “Let’s walk and talk, when things go wrong. Oh yes, let’s walk! Let’s walk and talk. Let’s walk and talk, let’s walk and talk and get along.”

Redundant, but the message is clear. Now I’m ready to get along with the world! And in the words attributed to my mother’s graduation class motto, “Onward ever, ceasing never.”