Been thinking a lot about age and death and the word “never” recently. I’m letting it all get to me a bit too much and when I get tired and weak my fear controls me. It seems like I am reminded about goodbyes and endings and death every where I turn. Like right this second. 79 year old Grady Tate is onstage singing… kinda. He’s in the midst of dementia or Alzheimer’s and his rehearsal started at 3p today. Right now it’s 10p and he’s tired and kind of confused. In the middle of his first song “Day by Day” he stopped and said to the audience “You know, I’ve sung this song 3000 times…. And this is the first time…. That I didn’t sing it very well.” He looked like he was giving up. He walked off after the second song, like he was done. The organizer and other singer, has kept him onstage and it’s almost over. But is this the last time he’ll be singing these songs in front of people?
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