Glory Days

Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album was a major album during our senior year of high school and our college days. I really liked the album, Jennifer on the other hand was just OK with it. She was more of a Tina Turner, Prince and Meatloaf fan.

One particular song on the "Born in the USA" album has really been hitting me between the eyes since she left me. That song is "Glory Days". The whole song is about reflecting back. It is a song that brings out happiness, sadness and nostalgia if you truly listen to the lyrics.

We all reflect back on events/situation in our lives but what I am finding (for me anyway) in my grieving is that it gets amplified a lot. Like a million times more than I ever reflected back before she left me. I think part of reason for that is probably the alone time. For me it hits the hardest in the early morning (like right now at 3:00 am). I wake up and my mind gets going a million miles an hours reflecting back on events/situations in my individual life as well as Jennifer's and my life together. Thus I am sitting here trying to type something that makes sense.

Jennifer and I both had our share of glory days. I won't bore you with mine, but I will bore you with some of Jennifer's since she can't and wouldn't if she was here.

Jennifer was a pretty fair athlete back in the day, especially in track. She was the fastest girl in our class at Whittier grade school. She lettered in track all four years of highschool and was a member of a state championship track team. That team was enshrined in the Butte Sports Hall of Fame. She was very proud to be a cheerleader our senior year of highschool.

She was a good student and was on the honor roll every year in highschool and thus was in the National Honor Society.

In her work life, one of her many glory days was that she was instrumental in a team that achieved the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star designation for Marathon's Iraan, Texas operations. This was OSHA's first Star designation for an exploration and production oil and gas operation.

Anyway as Bruce sings in the middle of the song "Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing Mister but boring stories of Glory Days".

Thanks for letting me bore you with some of her Glory Days. She would never have done that on her own, she was pretty humble and never really tooted her own horn.