Bardo
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Lately, I have been waking up every day with a different song running through my mind. Not a song that I just heard, or one I had been thinking about recently, but a seemingly random song from deep in the archives. Yesterday, I had "the talk" with my young son (you know the one, birds, bees etc). It was getting to be time to do it, as he is about to start a "family Life" class at school and they were going to tell him all that, and I didn't want him to hear it from anyone but me. Sorry, I digress. The point is, that I chose that moment to have the discussion with him seemingly at random. It actually surprised both of us (him more than me as you can imagine), and more suprisingly yet, I noticed right after we had had the talk, that the song that I was running through my head, and had been all morning, was "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogleberg. If you know the song, you know that it is a story about a son and his father, and the things that he teaches his son, and how he does it. It occured to me, rather forcefully, that this was guidance telling me to talk with Jack now, and showing me how best to do it. Anyone else had similar experiences?
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