I’m just home from A Beautiful Noise. The Neil Diamond Juke box musical. It was so good! At the same time it was so hard. I loved it, and learning more about his back story. At the end they reprised two numbers as sing-a-longs. Coming to America:

Far We’ve been traveling far Without a home But not without a star

Free Only want to be free We huddle close Hang on to a dream

On the boats and on the planes They’re coming to America Never looking back again They’re coming to America

I wanted to sing, but the words just wouldn’t come out. This is what our country is built on, but now all the people this song celebrates would be rounded up by masked thugs at the direction of our president. It makes me sick.

Thankfully the second reprise was Sweet Caroline which I could sing to. Reminded me of my Son’s Sr. Year of basketball and our dear friend and mother of another ball player out on the court at half time leading the crowd in the chorus.