Blog 3487 – 05.21.2025
10,000 Words
Shortly after I purchased my 2015 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck ten years ago I began transferring all the music that I had collected on CDs to Zip drives since the sound system in my then new sweet ride had no compact disc player as my previous ride a 2005 Jeep Wrangler had. The Ram sound system was so superior that I could hear lyrics that I had missed entirely in the Wrangler. It was and still is also a much quieter and more comfortable ride. I bought the Wrangler a couple of years old with thirty thousand miles already on it and drove it for eight years logging over a hundred and fifty thousand more miles while listening to my tunes. To date I have logged over 170,000 miles on the Ram since 2015 listening to those same tunes and adding a few more to my playlist along the way.
My late father-in-law, Wallace Mendel Stokes, who knew a great deal more than I ever will about working on vehicles of all types, once advised me to never keep a vehicle beyond ten years old because the replacement parts become difficult and more expensive to get. I may get a small, newer if not new, SUV when I am able to move to the Jay’s Hundred Acre Wood ranch near Bon Wier, Texas in a few years. Wallace’s good advice aside, I think I hang on this sweet ride till the wheels fall off.
I said all that to introduce today’s subject and song by the incomparable songstress and Whitney Houston’s auntie, Dionne Warwick. One of the compact discs that I copied to one on the Zip drives I listen to most was Dionne Warwicks Greatest Hits. I love to set this particular Zip drive which has over six hours of songs so that it mixes the playlist in random order. I have listened so long to the drive this way that when one song ends I know what comes next.
Like my goal of 10,000 blogs for http://www.the encouragingword.co these songs that I have personally picked to listen to over and over again are full of encouraging, enlightening, and entertaining words. Linked below is such a song appropriately named – 10,000 Words.
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
10,000 Words
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