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I just took the time to listen to the ‘sing me back home’ clip and revel in the beautiful memories. It brought me to tears, just as it did when DSO did it as a filler, Not long after she had her stroke, in Dewey about three and a half years ago. I was front and center, awash in the beauty of that song and the delivery by the band. No one did more for me than my mother. I did have the benefit of being the youngest child of an Irish woman. She would drive me from North Wilmington to the foot of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, watch me climb through a hole in the chain link fence, cross the off ramp, on my way to skateboard the drainage ditches around the highway there. She would come back a few hours later to pick me up. That would get you handcuffs these days. Later that same day, dinner was on time and delicious. Sorry about your loss, AC. I believe that a long life, well lived is worthy of a celebration, even though the sudden finality can be overwhelming for us who are left here.

Known to some elders who have studied the hierarchy: Maslow had collective consciousness above self actualization. Once we become what we can become we can tap into that of all. I'm reeling in sorrow for the loss of your mother and am still stricken by the loss my own who passed on July 17 this year. A Grief Odserved by CS Lewis is a good read at times like this. It's a small 68 page book. Thanks for letting it be known about the love between a mother and a son.

showing my era with this post-----still 20 years to late for where I should of been. Would rather be 66 than 46 right now if I could of spent the time 20 years prior. I love this song I just posted. How could Men with out hats and a midget make me smile? How did this song hit me before I even learned of GD? How does this mix in with Maslow's hierarchy? Well....how do you feel dancing to the Dead? GD, DSO, Further....when your dancing to the music, this music, how do you feel? I have, at times, felt my scariest thoughts and confronted them dancing to a China Doll, Attics, Sing me back home, So many roads..etc...... Such thoughts and internal confrontations in front of 10s of thousands down to only 6---the six was DSO sound checking in Jamaica when everyone else was eating. I was dancing in the sand, alone, but not lonely. Sure we share energy, but to dance alone in front of DSO was a rariety......I did not need to share and it felt good to be selfish. To have that stage all to my own. Chills up my spine as my hands type. The Music has always been my safety dance. Ironic it took discovering the magic of this music to understand safety dance. Life is so regimented. Society constrains-----our rituals constrain further----oddly many of us still jump right in and still believe in many outdated social rituals------I was embarrassed during my wedding---standing in front of people I have known my whole life, family, and another persons family that I allowed into my world. I can not remember a time I was ever embarrassed in front of Dead Heads. I have been other emotions, but embarrassed, I can not remember. We can dance, we can dance ----- We can dance like we come from out of this world and leave the real one far behind. Well, every time I dance at shows, I leave the real one far behind. From day 1, I felt safe doing so. There is not 1 of these needs that was not fulfilled at any show I have ever been over the past 32-33 years. If anything, this pyramid has been filled completely only at shows. Days Between----when phantom ships with phantom sails set to sea on phantom tides. Days Between. Life is a dance, an exchange of who we are presented to those who see.......I rarely dance to the days between, the days between has never completed the pyramid. No wonder why we give up so much to feel that fullness!!! The safety dance-----a dance I have only felt at shows.

My sister and mom mostly chose the play list but we did Dylan’s forever young at my dads funeral. You could have Jerry performing it. May god bless and keep you always... thought 12 years later still makes me cry. 11 years I’ve been listening to days between a lot during my moms fight with brain cancer. she still fighting it’s not the dead but I’ve always loved Will the circle be unbroken