About two months ago...

Sometime in late 2014, on a Saturday morning, I found myself walking around the house quietly singing a song to myself. I didn't think much of it until my wife turned to me and said "You know, it's been a real adventure the past 15 years to discover what song you're going to sing to yourself every morning."

I protested that it didn't happen nearly that often, but she assured me that most mornings, I had some tune or another stuck in my head, and they rarely repeated.

So, I decided to do a daily blog post about the song I have in my head each day, just to see where it leads.

2025-06-20

2025.06.20 - When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground

For a few years now, my wife and I have given each other a season pass to a local theatre company's productions as a Christmas present. That's where we recently saw "Finding Neverland". I wasn't sure what to think about this one going in, because I really didn't care for the Johnny Depp film (this isn't the time or place to unpack the pathology of WHY), but our daughter was a big fan so I tried to be positive about it. It says a lot about my feelings about the show that this song, which appears at the climax of the show, made its way into my mental rotation of songs that I wake up in the morning with. Much like the boy Peter in this show, I had to grow up quickly when I was very, very young - although for dramatically different reasons - and there are still things that haunt me sometimes about that phase of my life. This song really brought a lot of those back into the light and made them heal just a little bit more. I realize I'm probably alone in this, but I think naming the production after that terrible movie was a huge mistake for the musical. It's genuinely wonderful.
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