"Celebrate Me Home"

Tomorrow is the first day of spring! So tonight there needs to be some looking back, being a little retrospective, thoughtful, etc. and ready to go forward into something fresh.

In watching American Idol tonight and after getting a little attached to some of those kids, the exit song really got to me for a few reasons.

Number one is that it was originated back in MY day by the incredible Kenny Loggins (on his debut solo album in 1976) and redone by one of the fewer known Idol winners, Ruben Studdard (who does a remarkable remake of it by the way). Kenny Loggins' music holds many memories for me: I'm Alright (Caddyshack), Footloose, to name a few. Check him out, he may have a few you all recognize, too.

And the lyrics are incredible:

Home for the holidays, I believe I've missed each and every face,
Come on and play my music,
Let's turn on the love light in the place
It's time I found myself,
Totally surrounded in your circles
Whoa, my friends
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number,
please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember, and I can recall,
whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can sing me home.
Uneasy highway,
Traveling where the Westerly winds can fly,
Somebody tried to tell me,
But the men forgot to tell me why,
I gotta count on being gone,
Come on woman, come on daddy,
Be what you want from me,
I'm this strong, I'll be weak

Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number, please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
That I'll always remember, I can recall,
whenever I find myself too all alone,
I can make believe I've never gone,
I never know where I belong,
Sing me home.
Please, celebrate me home,
Give me a number, please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song,
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate, celebrate
Celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home,
Please, celebrate me home,
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Well I'm finally here,
But I'm bound to roam,
Come on celebrate me home
Please, celebrate me home....


Just ponder those words for a minute and what does it make you think of? Makes me think of soldiers, long lost children who find their way home, people who just want to belong.... or just the chorus that makes me think of my future home, where those I love are waiting. My parents, my son, two of my grandchildren, and my God.

Tomorrow is spring and that means new beginnings and new growth. And we can't grow and go forward if we don't know where we've been, and who we love.

Life is short - CELEBRATE SOMEONE HOME!!!!! Give them your number. (I know that's not what he means by "number", but I can clean it up in MY version) giggle