Time
Good Morning Everyone. I was adding some of the new sponsors to the webpage this morning and I noticed I haven’t had a new blog in a long while. 2023 was not a good year for me at all. I’m truly sorry for anyone that I didn’t get back to or forgot to do something for. I lost my Grandma Marlene, whom some of you met at the 2022 ride, in April of 2023. The week before the ride I started to have some pains in my stomach but I put it down as side effects from my 2 pot of coffee a day breakfast, oops. Well fast forward to a week after the ride and I was now in the Hospital with 7 ulcers and I was turning septic. I ended up being off of work for almost 3 months and found out I have Ulcerative Colitis, not fun let me tell you. As if that wasn’t a bad enough first half of the year, my aunt, passed away first part of July. Her and my Grandma lived together in Waverly. I was now made executor of their estates on top of working full time for the Railroad and trying to run the Foundation and still figuring out my UC. I thought the rest of the year couldn’t get any worse but I was wrong. In late December to top off an already shit year we had a Journalist decide to write a piece on the Foundation and boy oh boy was it terrible. I missed the email of her wanting to talk to me as it went to the junk file and by the time (4 days) I found it and got back to her, she had already written it up and couldn’t even get how long my Daughter lived right. I’m not writing this to have a pity party or any of that. I was just sitting here thinking to myself how much has slipped away or passed me by in the last year. I used to feel like time stood still but now I cherish every moment. It reminds me of one of my favorite songs “Time” by Pink Floyd. Let’s hope 2024 is better for all of us and if I can tell you all one thing it’s, Don’t put off anything that may not be there Tomorrow! Love you all and see you soon.
Joey
“Time”
Pink Floyd
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells