He Woke Up In A New Year

1. Drivin home this evening/I coulda sworn we had it all worked out

2. I was holding your arm/You were holding my trust like a child

Can you identify quote #1 0r quote #2?

(When I want to identify a song quote I've found that it works if I google the word lyrics together with the piece of the song I know. Or if I want all the lyrics of a song and I know the song's name then I type in the name and the word lyrics and it seems to never fail).

Within the answers to questions #1 and #2 lie a truth. There are two groups of people, those who know who quote number two is, and those who mistakenly think that when you mention him you're talking about quote number one.

That reminds me of the time that I was on a date and told a Steven Wright line ("I was in a hotel, and the pool was on the 99th floor...it was soooo deep") and the woman I didn't get it ("You were saying something?...About being in a hotel?")

Ideally I'd like to have someone around that appreciates the kind of things that I appreciate. But I think there are levels of understanding that are acceptable - in other words, just don't think my tastes and inclinations are nuts (like the girl who listened to a poem of mine and responded - "You wrote that?" - sounding like she'd never before encountered a live person who'd written a poem).

Does anyone out there recognize the name Delphine Blue? She's a DJ that disappeared from WFUV and has now made history as WCBS/Jack FM's first DJ. There's something about DJs. There are DJs that I've known since I was a child. One DJ whom I listen to now to on Saturday nights told my brother when we were kids that he was the caller to win a Beach Boys album. I saw another DJ that has been a voice in my life since I was a kid (Carol Miller) - this was in a hospital. She waited to talk, but I got shy.

"They'll take your soul if you let them - don't you let them." Can you name that one? On a whim I put on 101.1 FM this morning and found that they're playing live acoustic songs all morning.

I once heard James Taylor respond to the question,"How do you feel about being bald?" He spoke about his father and grandfather - handsome and accomplished men who were bald and it didn't matter and James said it didn't matter to him either.

What matters when it comes to physical things? Being bald? Being fat? Tall? Short? I understand the health issues behind weight. But I don't think that makes it fair that it's the only physical attribute that t's still acceptable to poke fun or look askance at.

Here are some hot off the press poems -

G-d of our fathers
but first of all he is ours
Elokeinu Ve

What to say or not
when to cultivate/let rot
hard question called life

Gerald Ford liked golf
and once he was president
does that make him bad?

Talk about ice-cream;
the texture and the flavor
meanwhile it melts

Good and merciful
merciful and always kind
In You we find hope

Life is about work
Or you can call it a fight
Either way - Own it

If the fight is yours
even when you win you lose
if not, you just lose

Blessings everywhere
fathers and sons and blessings
In Breishit, in life

Reuven, Shimon
How did they and their kids feel
about Yosef's sons?