The Waiting Place


I recently heard a John Prine song, ‘Just Waitin’, which I'd strongly recommend giving a listen to, and it's about twenty years ago I came across Dr. Seuss'  wonderful little book, ‘Oh, the Places You Will Go’, in which he writes of ‘the waiting place’,  Despite my best efforts not to be, this is where I find myself right now.

Waiting for that phone call. Waiting to make a lot of phone calls and send a lot of emails, press releases etc. etc.  Waiting like many for news of my college grant application, waiting to get a date from a guy who’ll check out my new to me car for it’s NCT - that’s our roadworthiness test which needs to be done annually one a car gets to the age mine is. Today too, it was waiting for the rain to stop and not much chance of going busking which, apart from buying some of the groceries, keeps me patient and sane (though some may disagree with the latter).



The main hold up though is wait time for the files for my EP, Fathers, Sons & Lovers, to come back from Nashville where the word from the good ol’ boys is that they need to get a date where they can all be in the studio together.  This is a little frustrating as, if I don’t have the songs finished soon, I might not have hard copies of CD to hit the road with in August.



The upside to all this waiting and bad weather today is that I now have the shelves, that have been waiting for over a month to be assembled, standing proudly waiting to be filled and the curtains which must have been waiting for almost two years, hanging from a pole.



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  1. seanoneillsongs6 August 2017 at 02:12

    The John Prine song I mentioned in this post is actually a cover of a Hank Williams song.

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