[at-l] Things to listen to... Re: Places to be sprinkled...

[Tom McGinnis]

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Jim Stewart <jim.stewart at usa.net> wrote:

> Already in the will -
>  
> 1.  a scoop of the ashes are to be placed around the
> roots of each of the Oak trees that I planted for my
> Grandkids.
>  
> 2.  the rest to get tossed into the air at Shining
> Rock at sunset.  I really love that place.

### A will! Jeez, but I've got to move that up on the list of things to do......

### I started work on a "soundtrack" a year or so back. It had bothered me that there was so much good music out there that, for silly reasons, I had gotten away from listening to... and *really* really enjoyed. (I was never really a deadhead until I read... in an AT shelter register somewhere -- maybe PA, maybe CT, maybe VT -- the lines

"When I die please bury me deep,
And place two speakers at my feet,
And place some headphones on my head,
And always play the Grateful Dead."

And I decided right there and then, that there had to be something extra in that music that I was missing, for someone to place that music in such high regard as The Eternal Jukebox. Pretty awesome. So I started listening some more. ... ... 

And now, a goodly 30 years later, I've got a small-but-growing list that I refer to as "The Soundtrack." Think about The Big Chill (a movie I was never really a big fan of, but always liked the sentiment) and that soundtrack. I would envision a takeaway cd of some Dead, some Del McCoury, some instrumental Phish, some Quaker hymns, a little Yonder Mountain, and back through some String Cheese and into some Leftover Salmon. (Makes a fine meal.)..... It's an interesting mix so far, but I've barely made a dent, too.