Discussing challenges to our health, Jenney shared with me her emotions when hearing the opening chords of Lightfoot at her first concert post surgery. She warned me that when those first notes rang our her tears began to flow and that I might expect the same.
To frenzied applause, Gord emerged from the darkness and immediately started the set with ’Triangle’.
What a year! I made it!! Gord live!, and no tears!
It wasn’t until about midway through the first set that Gord and the band broke into ’Beautiful’. That did it! For me! Holding Cathy’s hand I thought back twenty years to our wedding day when I could walk upright and still had hair insulating my head. We had asked the band to play Gord’s ‘Beautiful’ as our first song -for our opening dance.
“No Problem! - You’ve got it!”
The magic moment approached and as Cathy and I approached the dance floor, held hands and lovingly stared into each other’s eyes, we suddenly grimaced in disbelief!
The band had confused ‘Beautiful’ for ‘Beautiful’!!!
“You are so bee-autiful, to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee, can’t you see?”……………
So our magic moment was not enveloped by the loving music of Gordon Lightfoot, but rather Joe Cocker!
That mistake would bring tears to most anyone’s eyes!
Jenny, you were right! My eyes were more than misty, happy to be experiencing Gord once more and having my loving wife beside me.
Even from a wheelchair, life can be good!
Yuri
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