SevenDaysOfPositivityWayBackMusicChallenge Barry Manilow. Yup. Really.

So, seriously, I am SO HAPPY that the cows running all over town are NOT MINE!!! This is the fence we built today, more to keep other cows out of our pasture than to keep ours in...

My first niece was born when I was 5. I was the oungest of seven children. My oldest sister named her daugher "Amanda" and we called her "Mandy." When I was 12, ripe for teenybopper idolworship, Barry Manilow released this song. I started a fan club. No, seriously.

Karen McCormick and I went to Cincinnati Music Hall to see Barry Manilow play at CIncinnati Music Hall. It was the first "rock concert" I ever went to. Weird coincidence, it is also where my father died, on the escalator up on his "date" with Mom. What a way to go, drop dead of a massive heart attack, here:

We carried with us a copy of our Junior High yearbook carrying the good wishes of a dozen of so members of the Princeton Barry Manilow fan club. Two joints were tucked inside the cover. We tossed it onstage during the encore. He looked a little surprised but did not call security... LOL!

Oh yes, I am drunk as shit and admitting this. I've been building fence all day, a hard working gal deserves to relax in the evening and laugh with friends...

Music has been this amazing constant in my life, lifting me to incredibly sacred highs and comforting me in devastating lows. In these "downhill" years, I see frequency as this central weave to the fabric of my life. Whatever you or even I may think of Barry now, he had an incredible influence on pre-teen fishy.

So here is my mutli-tagsked post of the #waybackmusicchallenge who Hive account@dennisauburn tagged me in, with my ongoing sevendaysofpositivity challenge. Barry Manilow had a huge influence on young me, and it stills gives me great amusement to reflect on those simple days of my youth.

I hope that is comprehensible... LOL! CHEERS!!!