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This popped up on my Youtube feed. Kinda got choked up. Just the love and innocence of a child. I used to do this with CHIEF Jr. as my father had done it with me:

 

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Love is love…

 

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initially thought that guy was open carry (I don’t know the rules) and then realized nah he’s just an old with a belt holster for his phone. 

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46 minutes ago, troph said:

Love is love…

 

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initially thought that guy was open carry (I don’t know the rules) and then realized nah he’s just an old with a belt holster for his phone. 

Or maybe he’s a Sneaky Pete kinda guy…..

 

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Superior Automotive on South 1st.  Best mechanic I've ever had.  Hard to believe but honest, knowledgeable and reasonably priced. The epitome of a place that doesn't screw you around.  

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This is probably been here before, and my favorite part is the mom has started an instagram that is just the video everyday, and let me tell you what, nothing will brighten your morning than this little girls laugh:

 

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Warning - very tldr, so just skip it if you're not into the whole reading thing...

Preface - I lead a Czech polka band, but we do a lot of Oktoberfests etc as well, just wrapped up our fall season.

Story #1 - We were playing in Round Rock on Saturday for an Oktoberfest.  There is a couple that lives in Round Rock, our band actually played their wedding reception in Austin in 1997, the woman's family is from the Czech Republic so they wanted a Czech band.  Their wedding dance song was a pretty waltz called "My Darling".  

We run into them from time to time, usually at this one Oktoberfest we do every year, and I would always try to have that song in our book so we w could play it for them.  Well, we hadn't seen them for a few years so I took it out, I do that from time to time, add new songs, pull old ones out etc.  So we played a gig in Taylor back in May.  Day-long festival on the town square.  This couple showed up, was glad to see them but was crushed when they asked us to play "My Darling" and I realized I didn't have it in the book.  I apologized and told them the next time I saw them, I would have it ready.  No big deal to them, they were just happy to dance, but it bothered me.

So as I was getting our books ready for our "fall tour", I made sure I put in back in the books.  Sure enough, Saturday we are playing and I look up and there they are, just hanging out with their friends.  Told them it was good to see them again, they danced a few songs, and then left for a little while.  I was kind of disappointed, but then they came back, guess they went to get some food or something.  Anyway, I told the crowd that we were going to to a song, wasn't an Oktoberfest song but our friends were here, and this is their song so we're gonna do it, and everyone else can just pretend it's a German song (nobody cared, we have great crowds that like whatever we play...). 

I could see the amazement on their faces when I announced it, they were not expecting it at all.  So we played it, they danced, and at the end they came up to the stage and they were both crying, like tears running down their faces (big strong men...).  Made me tear up as well.  Just to know I could bring that much happiness and emotion to two people just by playing a song.  Who knows what their lives have been like over the past 30 years, good times and bad, sickness and health and all that.  So to bring that kind of joy to them, wow, made my day.

 

Story #2 - next day, Sunday, we're playing a church picnic down in Hostyn, outside La Grange.  A lady comes up and askes if we could play the "Red and White" Waltz, classic Czech waltz, everyone knows it.  Said sure, so the next chance we got, we played it.  As soon as we started playing it I remembered why.  We play this picnic every year, but it's our only gig down that way so I don't know all those people that well.  But I look out and see this woman helping up an old woman with a walker, and it hit me.  This lady asks for this song every year, it's her mom's (the lady in the walker) favorite song.  Once I saw her I recognized them both, it all came back.

So the lady helps her mom stand up, and they begin just kind of gently scooting the walker around, "dancing".  I thought, wow that is nice.  So we're playing along, the next thing I see is a a guy, probably 60 or so, crazy guy, was running around all morning talking to people, had a home-made hat that he had made, took two of his favorite polka bands, cuts the hats in half and sewed them together, so a two-billed hat, like something you'd see on Hee Haw.  Just a goof-ball.  But a good guy, talked to him later, he has prostate cancer but is out there living his best life.

Anyway, I see him walk up and talk to the lady for a minute, and the next thing, they are setting the walker aside, the gentleman cradles the old woman in his arms and they begin just rocking back and forth, again, "dancing".  Holy hell.  I can see the daughter is crying, I'm trying not to choke up as I'm singing.  To see that level of kindness and empathy, I didn't expect that at a polka dance.  

 

TLDR: there's a lot of love and joy out there, it's just hard to find sometimes, but if you're lucky enough to see it, wow, it'll knock you down.

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