Wednesday Night with Otis

What is the best thing about BW3's? Tall beers? Numerous TV's all showing sports? NTN Trivia? Cheap/decent food? Being able to allow kids reach 80 decibels while throwing wing sauce and ranch dressing across the room? (Editors note - tip well)

It has been a very long time since the last planting of the garden. Almost a whole summer. Baseball teams have risen and fallen. Football teams have gotten off to good and bad starts. Olympians have made it in and out of communism. A man of semi-African descent has been nominated for President and an Alaskan woman is running for Vice President. And, most importantly, a child has been born. Well actually many children have been born. I know of more than a few friends that have had children this summer. But none are more important to the Dandelion Garden than my own - The Big O.

I have officially been on my own for three days with three children and everything is okeedokee so far. So far. I have discovered, however, that my future problems won't be with the new child. It is the older two that give Damien a good name. It appears that they are very aware of when The Big-O is ready to sleep because that is exactly when they decide to play the bongos. Or the cymbals. Or just bang doll-heads on the coffee table. Or sing Ring-Around-The-Rosy and all FALL DOWN! (I tried to explain that the song was about children falling dead from the plague, but they just didn't seem to care.)

It may seem implausible but here I am once again working in the garden and the song 'Tangled Up in Blue' has hit my playlist. Really, there are over 300 songs in my playlist. But when it counts the most Bob Dylan's poetry hits my ears. "We all did feel the same we just saw it from a different point of view." Well I guess that is what sums it up for me. Most people are not very different from one another. We all really just want the same basic things in life. We just have different ways of achieving those goals. And if everyone would just help each other, just a little bit, we could all probably get there.

But that's just asking too much.

Mo, Hank and the Big O - that's where I am these days. I have already accomplished quite a few things in life. And I strive to do a lot more. But right now it is all about Mo, Hank and O. Three different kids all with the same purpose.

Happiness.