Sad songs make me cry...

...especially when they are like this one...

Inch by inch, row by row

Gonna make this garden grow

All it takes is a rake and a hoe

And a piece of fertile ground

That song would make you cry, too.

Right?

(sniff, sniff, sniff)

The lady sitting by me at Mo's Kindergarten graduation thought I was funny.

Mr. Jenny thought I was funny.

My daughter-in-law thought I was funny.

But I was sad.

Mo.

My little, serious, lovely little Mo...

...is going to be a first grader.

And if that wasn't bad enough, all the little five year olds had to sing that ridiculously sad song during

the graduation ceremony.

Inch by inch, row by row

Someone bless these seeds I sow

Someone warm them from below

'Til the rain comes tumbling down

Of course I had to cry.

Pulling weeds and pickin' stones

Man is made from dreams and bones

Feel the need to grow my own

'Cause the time is close at hand

Grain for grain, sun and rain

Find my way in nature's chain

To my body and my brain

To the music from the land*

After the graduates filed out, the lady next to me asked me if I was always so emotional.

She said it nicely when she asked me, so I answered her.

I said, "No.  I must be tired."

She just smiled and started to leave.

I touched her arm, and she turned back.

"I lied," I said, "I am always so emotional...but, really, don't you think that's a sad song?"

She just smiled, again, and walked away.

*this song was written by folk singer David Mallett in 1975.  It is called "The Garden Song".