Blog 3800 – 04.19.2026
Looking Forward
One of the things that makes life worth living is the anticipation of achieving some greater satisfaction in the future. Though I think it is a classic mistake to worry about the past or the future, for that matter, it is still a great encouragement to have something to look forward to tomorrow and to replay precious memories from the past.
In 1970 Judy Collins sang Someday Soon, a hit song, on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour that she had recorded and released in 1969. It is a beautiful western ballad about a young woman singing about a twenty-one year old young man from Southern Colorado who had recently gotten out of the service and was looking for fun. She says, “He loves his damned old rodeo as much as he loves me, someday soon, going with him someday soon.”
I turned nineteen in 1969 and still had a couple of years left on my military enlistment and a year in South Vietnam ahead of me. While on a two week leave before leaving for that assignment I talked my girlfriend at the time into getting married, promising her that someday soon we would be together and share a happy life. Alas, that dream was not to be, still it did keeping going during that long hot summer overseas and I am grateful for that and enjoying that sweet dream for a while.
I heard Judy Collin’s singing that song on YouTube yesterday and it brought back a lot of pleasant memories. I thought I would share it with you, my friends. Not only young people dream of better days. So often after a set back or several we are tempted to think our best days are behind us. Don’t believe it, if one dream falls through, or even a thousand and two, believe me a brighter better dream will come along if we hold on and dreams still do come true.
I have come to appreciate a poem that has long been a favorite of my lovely, loving and long time wife, Linda Lee. It goes – “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.”
Someday soon…
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
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