“No One Ever Tells You” that with a disability you may live “Moment to Moment” and long for “The Good Times”. “Night After Night” I lie awake with my “Head on My Pillow” and accept that while “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues” more often than not “I Whistle a Happy Tune” because my Grandma taught me when I was very young that “When You’re Smiling” the whole world smiles with you.
“It Never Entered My Mind” that I may be “All Alone” for “As Long As I Live” without my one true love. It hit me hard “Yesterday” that “This Is the Beginning of the End” and that I may have “A Hundred Years From Now” or only “Five Minutes More” to spend time in his company. He is my strength “Come Rain or Come Shine” and has been by my side “Every Day of My Life”. “Time After Time” being with “This Love of Mine” is “A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening” “Come Rain or Come Shine”. “He’s My Guy” and life will be “Half as Lovely” without him. “I’ll Never Be the Same” if we suddenly face “The Last Dance”
It would be “Nice ‘n’ Easy” to sit around and lament the passing of “The Days of Wine and Roses” and yearn “For the Good Times”. “I Could Write a Book” as I sit “Among My Souvenirs” and “Forget to Remember” that “It Was a Very Good Year”. And then I think to myself, “Should I?” “I’ll Never Be The Same” if I start “Learnin’ the Blues” and get lost in a “Melancholy Mood”.
I refuse to be that “Old School Teacher”, sitting around in “The House I Live In” wrapped up in “My Shawl” looking “Out Beyond the Window” at a “Pale Moon” letting life “Pass Me By”. Instead, I try to “Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive” and “Dig Down Deep” “Every Day of My Life” and remind myself that “The Best is Yet to Come”. “I Sing The Songs” and high kick my way into that “Same Old Song and Dance” because “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”, “This Thing I Love” that is just “Too Marvelous for Words”.
From “I’ve Got You Under my Skin” to “The Lady is a Tramp” – Frank Sinatra has always been and always will be the love of my life. His music is forever in my soul and I will always have Frank close to me once my world drifts into silence.
In the words of Old Blue Eyes himself, “May you live to be 100 – and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
It will be, Frank – it will be.
Deaf, But Not Really: My Story 
My wish for you, my beautiful daughter, is that you will always hear “live” music. I know that Frank will always be in your mind but Mommys tend to get greedy and want more for their blessed children. Love you my sweet Julie 😘
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