Blog 3535 – 07.09.2025

3am Wisdom

A friend posted the above picture quote on Facebook and I found it wise and inspiring. It never ceases to amaze me all the wise and wonderful thoughts that come to us when we are quiet especially in the still small hours of the morning when we are awake and find it difficult to sleep.

Several songs lyrics on the subject come to mind. The first one is the lovely and sad romantic ballad by Crystal Gayle: “Three o’clock in the morning and it looks like it’s gonna be another sleepless night. You’ve been talking in your sleep…”

Talking In Your Sleep

Talking In Your Sleep

And the second is to me also sad, lovely, poetic, and realistic. All romances are relatively brief and end for all loves are cut short by tragedy it not cheating by death. We only get to experience this warm and wonderful experience ever so briefly if at all so we should say with the poet, “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” If we are lucky enough to be among the former we should savor every moment and cherish every memory even the sad after taste of love gone wrong or lost.

Here is ole Blue Eyes three o’clock thoughts on love.

“It’s quarter to three, there’s no one in the place, except you and me, so set ‘em up Joe, I got a little story, I think you should know…Make it one for my Baby and one more for the road.”

Frank Sinatra – One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

Frank Sinatra – One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

If even as Karen Carpenter sang that “All you get from love is a love song” or as B.J. Thomas sang, “Hey, won’t you play, another somebody did somebody wrong song” the real tragedy is not losing at love, but never getting to know love at all.

One last song reference that I have used many times and mostly likely will again especially in the wee small hours of the morning: “If you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White