Blog 3599 – 09.14.2025

“Places (Faces) I Remember All My Life”

“…Some have gone on and some remain. In my life I’ve loved them all.” Those lines from a favorite Beatles song come to mind often as I approach the seventy-fifth anniversary of this adventure in time and space. One of the best things about Facebook is reconnecting with familiar and beloved faces from the past.

So many wonderful memories are associated with faces that have meant so much to me over the years and I have wondered how their lives turned out hoping they experienced the highest and best that life has to offer.

One very dear and special friend that I knew in high school that I recently reconnected with on Facebook said that she had become quite political in the last ten years and she said that she hoped that I would not be offended by her politics. I replied that friends can disagree and still remain friends. If I unfriended people with different opinions I would soon have no friends at all. Over the years I have changed my mind many times. And if I live as I hope to another twenty five years, this go round, I expect to change my mind and opinions many more times.

It is my opinion that most of us hold our opinions too highly and leave too little wiggle room for growth. I hope to keep learning, to keep growing as long as I live and changing our minds is what learning and growth are all about. We are mirrors to one another reflecting and projecting the best and the worst that we see in ourselves.

I shared with my friend and former classmate a line from a favorite Whitney Houston song that has inspired me to think outside the box. In the song, Queen of the Night, the incomparable and so sexy Whitney sings, “When I’m bad I’m better.”

From children we are told, “Be good.” But, we have not always been good and we all are at our very best like the Ying Yang symbol at the same time a large part light with a small part dark and a large part dark with a small part light. Another beautiful song, What A Wonderful World talks about, “The bright blessed day and the dark sacred night.” Life and we are not one or the other, but both. Black is indeed beautiful but so is white and all the shades in between and all the colors of the rainbow. No opinion, no belief, no political or color choice, or dare I say sexual orientation is the one and only right and true one for everyone. We are a beautiful patchwork quilt and our weaknesses and our differences makes us better not worse.

I said something else to my long time friend that flowed from me as natural and easy as it should have. I said, I love you Sue, and have since we were friends and classmates so many years ago and no difference of opinion is ever going to change that.

One more quote from an another favorite song that to me is as holy and as inspired as any Bible verse that I ever quoted. It goes, “There ain’t no good guys, there ain’t no bad guys, there’s only you and me and we just disagree.”

At almost three quarters of a century, I have lived long enough that I have probably held the very same opinions, perhaps even several times, that I disagree with today and trust me no opinion or even strongly held belief is worth losing sleep let alone a friend over.

Sweet dreams, my dear and beloved friends, I hope everyone of you is “Living the Dream.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

(“The lovers, the dreamers, and me.” -to quote Kermit the Frog.)

David James White

Watch this video on “youtube the rainbow connection song”

A Special Performance of “Rainbow Connection” from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets