I was up most the night last night because of the storms, now I can't sleep again. I just don't get it, it's like insomnia has been habitually pre-programmed into me. It's terrible to be so tired, but not be sleepy. :/
So, instead of sleeping I have been up reading a Stephen King book until it got to a point it just wasn't holding my interest. Well, even Stephen King can get a little slow at times, it's only got 880 pages. :giggle: Anyway, I just started surfing through some you tubes and came across that old song by George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today". Haven't heard it in quite a while, I don't even listen to country music, too many negative memory associations with my ex-husband, lol. But putting my bias aside that really is a beautiful country song. Then it dawned on me, that song was played at my father in law's funeral. Not that we were that close, but there's still something there. Well, he did request that I write his eulogy which I did. Interesting that, I had never written a eulogy and did not want to do it. But then somehow, from somewhere, this other worldly inspiration came to me from out of the clear blue, and I just wrote it. Weird, huh.
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" is for sure not your typical funeral song is it ? But my FIL requested that specific song be played, I believe, as a tribute to his already deceased wife. I think even more though, it was his way of telling his sons how much he loved their mother, in spite of all his short comings as a husband, and maybe as a father as well. It was his way of showing regret and remorse, and of asking forgiveness. Somehow that makes it more special to me.
[video=youtube;6DDhDTIYKxg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDhDTIYKxg[/video]
