A day of reflection and memories today. My Dad died 5 years ago, today, and while I think about him almost daily in some capacity, for obvious reasons this day seems like an equinox of the mind. I had a tough time dealing with the passing of my Father, because I didn’t ask for help and I didn’t have a frame of reference for how to deal with grief. It called into question many beliefs that I had just assumed had to be the way I thought they were. Untested. Well. Yeah that didn’t work out as planned.

I’ve been trying to tie some of these posts to lyrics or passages in music I like. This time, I’ll pick something from Crematory, from a track called Left the Ground.

Touch the skies, just like butterflies
Leave the thoughts behind, let the sun go blind
I will see the next one from a higher ground
However it will make things turn, I will have
Left the ground

It’s a nice passage. It’s funny to listen to a very large tattooed Scandinavian dude with long hair a sing about butterflies though.