Reflections of My Life

 I just came across the Marmalade song from 1969 called Reflections of My Life. I always loved that song.  It makes me reflect upon my own life as I have done in all of my writings.  For every book that I have written, I get this overwhelming feeling that I need to finish it before I die.  As I was working on The Road Onward, this feeling got so strong that I wrote the ending way in advance and told my wife that I had done that, and instructed her that if I am not around to fill in the middle of the book, she should insert in those missing pages, "David has gone to be with the Lord.  

Marmalade's lead singer, Dean Ford, sings, "The world is a bad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live.  Oh, but I don't want to die."   I've been obsessed with death my entire life, and there's a part of me that doesn't want to die, so that I can see our children have families and enjoy our grandchildren.  But, the world keeps getting badder and badder filling one's bladder with deceptive blabber, and I look forward to ridding myself of this broken vessel and being in Heaven with the Lord.