After returning from a week on the road there’s nothing quite like plopping into your own bed. I love it. It’s not that I have anything against hotel beds, or guest beds, hide-a-beds, aero beds or even motorhome beds (though I’ve never been crazy about cots). I can sleep anywhere. It’s just not the same as your own bed. I dream differently in my own bed.
In fact some of my best songs were discovered somewhere between dreaming and waking in my own bed. Outlines for chapters of books and pivotal scenes in screenplays I’ve written were all found in that dreaming/waking space supported by a mattress that knows me, deep down. (Maybe that’s the reason they call it “memory foam”) So tonight, as I bid my M2B:) blog space farewell til tomorrow I’m happy to have a home to come home to and a bed that knows me. I’ve never really expressed this before…my happiness for my own bed. Perhaps absence has made the heart (or more likely, my back) fonder. Or maybe it’s been subconscious. Thinking about those in Haiti with no homes and no beds and no idea if they’ll be able to have homes again.
Can you hear that? It’s calling me. It’s an odd, muffled sound. What else would you expect from a mattress? But it’s clearly calling out to me: “Say goodnight Michael”. And so, happily, I shall. “Goodnight Michael”
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I am in total agreeance! I love my own bed! There is simply nothing that can compare to it. I’ve spent a lot of my young life in a hospital and my favorite thing once I am released to go home is going home to MY bed…hospital beds aren’t the greatest form of happiness. My mattress, my pillows, my covers…it is all heavenly bliss!
Michael, we all hope you don’t mind us calling you by your first name. I just need to tell you how very much I love your music, your lyrics, everything!!! Your music and lyrics reach down into the heart, and connects with those of us who need the comfort and assurance that someone else understands how we feel. I have a son who has been an alcoholic for so long, he’s my seventh child of seven, a twin and a wonderful spirit. I purchased your CD ‘Changed’ and played it for him with little response, but I knew that he listened to every word of every song. A week or two after, my son finally found his son of the past, he is 24 now and was adopted by a wonderful LDS family and lives in Utah now. He has met his birth mother already, but with Jay’s background he feels he needs to make sure Jay will not hurt or disappoint him. He told his birth mother after meeting her, that he promised he would always be as good as he could in his life so that his birth parents would be proud of him. when they finally meet. On this boys birthday Jay and the birth mother always call each other. Well, Jay now has a purpose to be happy and has become different and can see happiness instead of such sadness and most importantly is not drinking! We all know that it will be a lifetime of building back what we have lost. My son has suffered so much as he lost a sister when he was only 6 years old and she loved him so much, her name was Wendy. She’s been gone for a long time, but our family is constantly thinking of her, we know she is near us. Your CD ‘Changed’ is so wonderful, and Jay is going to take it (so that others) in his counseling class can hear it too. I hope that is ok. I gave a RS lesson ‘Family and Marriage’ at Enrichment Night in my ward in Oregon, and used a little story on the cover of a tape I bought a long time ago. The little story was about your wife before you were married and you told her that you wanted to be successful before you married and she told you no way that if you two would marry she wouldn’t be waiting around for you to become famous, (which you have). All the Sisters loved that little story and was probably told by you at one point, because it sounds like your words. I love your music and the meaning and message behind every piece. Thank you Michael for being you, and for your wonderful talent. (I also have your CD ‘The Other Side of Sorrow’ which is sometimes hard to listen to because of the suffering of our sweet young people and divorce etc. but love it anyway. My husband and I have been married 51 years! Thanks Michael.