My Mom has been changing up the music we listen to during our morning routine. She doesn’t like my music so I let her decide what will listen to She decided on Justin Bieber‘s, “Sorry” today. When I search it in Apple Music, we can hear this song over and over again which doesn’t bother either one of us.
That is a random song for her to choose, I know, but it is a Barwis song.! In 2015, I was going to Barwis strong thinking that walking was on the horizon, not too far away. She actually had to remind me that it was a Barwis song years ago. Even though I LOVED seeing her sway her hips and move her arms to the music and mouth the words but that is NOT what this blog post is about.
Just before my Mom attached the pads to my knee for my tens unit, she talked to me about living in Oklahoma with my Dad. I’ve known my whole life that they used to live in Oklahoma at Fort Sill when they were first married (where I just read that RBG and her husband lived also). I’m surprised that I do not know all of the details because I never have asked my Mom before.
She told me that my Dad did not want to live in military housing so he got an apartment for them. My Mom talked about how forlorn my Dad saw her look when they entered the apartment. The previous tenants we’re guys so my Mom told me that it was really dirty! She has told me before that the kitchen was the brightest room in the apartment.
It was yellow. She told me that after she cleaned it up by scrubbing it down that she cut out a design on contact paper and put them on the cabinets. They were vines and flowers. I like to hear her tell the story and I ask her if she has any pictures and she does not. BUMMER! I like hearing stories about this part of her and by Dad’s life that I know nothing about!
As she described cleaning the kitchen and making it bright. she raised her hands on either side of her face with her fingers spread apart and said in a singsong voice, “Sunshine!” I immediately thought of this song:
It’s funny how all things always point back to U2 for me but I really like hearing about their time in Fort Sill.