Blog 3222 – 08.28.2024
Laughter In The Rain
When I was a child we sang, “Rain, rain go away, come again another day.” We so loved to romp and play in the sun, but even way back them I loved to play in the rain and preferred Neil Sedaka’s song Laughter in the Rain to the little chorus asking the rain to go away and thought the words would better be, “Rain, rain please stay I wish you would visit everyday.
Much as I missed my mountains when I move to Houston, Texas from Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1973, I did love the way it seemed to rain every afternoon. I do so love to laugh and to me there is always laughter in the rain.
My wife’s mother, Betty Lou, thinks of rain an inconvenience like many of you perhaps or at best a necessary evil. Far from it, in my view, rain is not only essential for life as we know it in all is forms, but it is as much fun if not more to play in the rain as it is to play in the sun. We need a balance sunshine and rain to stay healthy and strong.
I have mention it several times before, but one of my fondest memory is of watching a Sesame Street episode with my daughter Emily when she was a little girl. There was a black man sitting behind a desk looking and sounding like a politician running for office. His message was: “Folks I’ve been hearing a lot of bad talk about rain. Listen, folks we’ve got to get behind rain.” I still chuckle at that one.
“Ooh, I hear laughter in the rain…”
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White
Neil Sedaka – Laughter in the Rain (1974)
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