PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 96 - COMMON SCENTS video and song

 PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 96 - COMMON SCENTS video and song

Pawpaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer forever!

It is January 2025. I have just finished releasing my song COMMON SCENTS. As you'll see and hear, the lyrics are from a poem I wrote about how we can stumble across a certain aroma and our minds will go back in time to some forgotten but special memory,

I love you,

  Pawpaw

Common Scents (lyrics)

By Steven Skelley

 

The aroma of jasmine in the Spring air

Transports me through space and time

To my Grandma Mary's flower garden

A moment when she was all mine

 

Common scents spark my memories

Common scents bring you back to me

Common scents make me feel things that I need

How I wish I had more common scents

 

An unknown man passes by me

His cologne tingles my nose

Suddenly I am a child again

In Dad's barbershop tapping my toes

 

Common scents spark my memories

Common scents bring you back to me

Common scents make me feel things that I need

How I wish I had more common scents

 

Isn't it strange that my silly nose

Is not just two oxygen vents

It's a random access time machine

Triggered by common scents

 

I wish that I had more common scents

The ones that make me remember

Special people, places and feelings

Memories both joyous and tender

 

Common scents spark my memories

Common scents bring you back to me

Common scents make me feel things that I need

How I wish I had more common scents

 

 ©️ 2025 Steven Skelley

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 95 - Know Good

 PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 95 - Know Good

Pawpaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer! Now and forever!

Good morning, guys. I wonder where you are and what you are doing. I do this every single day. I miss you more than I can put into words.

I hope you stumble across this blog and read these messages. I love you.

Today, I'm sharing with you a song that I composed when I was a Christian singer songwriter sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Your Mom used to play with her Barbie dolls while I played my guitar and wrote songs. 

This song is titled KNOW GOOD. It is based on the Bible passages 

* Matthew 25:31-46

* Luke 10:25-37

* James 4:17

Basically, what all these passages say is that it is no good just to know good if you are not going to do it.

Know Good

By Steven Skelley

Jesus told about a man who went walking down a road

That man was beaten, robbed and stripped left bleeding nude and cold

Oh that's no good

No that's no good

Then along came religious men

you'd have thought that they would help

Don't you know that they just walked on by

only thinking of themselves

Oh that's no good

No that's no good

It's no good just to know good

if you're not going to do it oh no

It's no good just to know good

you've got to put some action to it

It's no good just to know good

It's no good just to know good

Jesus said that we will stand

when we've finished our lives' roads

God will separate every woman and man

like separating sheep from goats

Oh that's no good

No that's no good

Jesus tells the women and men

separated as the goats

Your faith was worthless helping no one

As far as heaven you've missed the boat

Oh that's no good

No that's no good

It's no good just to know good if you're not going to do it oh no

It's no good just to know good you've got to put some action to it

It's no good just to know good. It's no good just to know good

Copyright 2024 Steven Skelley

I hope that by now you know that I did not leave you. We loved each other from the days you were born. My husband Tom and I were banned from your lives after your parents adopted a new religion and political view. I have tried repeatedly to reach your Mon and Dad but they will not return my messages. Please know that Pawpaw didn't abandon you. My heart is broken and I think about you every day. If I'm not still alive when you stumble across these messages, please know that you were loved.

Love always,

Pawpaw

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 94 - Christmas 2024

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 94 - Christmas 2024

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 93 - CHRISTMAS LOVE ROCK

Pawpaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer! I miss you all. I am posting my song CHRISTMAS LOVE ROCK. Last year, I recorded a Country version with banjo. This version is strictly honky tonk rock and roll. Love you and miss you,Pawpaw

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 92 - YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 92 - YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND I love you all! Papaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer! I'm posting my song YOU'RE ME BEST FRIEND. I hope you like it. I used ten foreign language words for friend in it. Love you, Papaw

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 91 - Traveling to the Canadian Rockies

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 91 - Traveling to the Canadian Rockies

Pawpaw loves Connor, Bryson and Archer!

It is Fall of 2024. Our friend Curt (he and his partner Frank used to let you guys swim in their pool and they always bought you Christmas and birthday presents) has always wanted to visit the Canadian Rocky Mountains. As Tom and I looked at videos and photos of them, we decided that we wanted to see them too. So, I mad plans for a ten day trip from Florida to Banff, Alberta, Canada.

I booked us a hotel in Banff Town where we could walk to everything. We had one of the best vacations ever. The glacier-made Rocky Mountains are huge and surround this little town. The snow and ice from the mountains creates rivers and lakes that have beautiful turquoise water. 

We visited Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, and the Johnston Canyon waterfalls. We rode a gondola 7500 feet to the top of a mountain.

Tom took a photo of me holding an elk antler. A huge elk walked down the road beside our vehicle. At another place, a herd of mountain goats blocked the road. One day we came out of our hotel and three deer walked past us and crossed the street right in front of us.

Banff is a beautiful place. I wish you could have been there with us. I miss you guys.

I will love you forever,

Pawpaw

(Please remember - I did not abandon you. I would never leave you willingly. When your parents became attached to their new religion and became extremely political, they disowned Tom and me. We were no longer welcome to visit, call, text or even send birthday and Christmas gifts.)

PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 90 - HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY BRYSON

 PAWPAW'S MESSAGES TO MY GRANDSONS 90 - HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY BRYSON

Happy 9th Birthday Bryson! I am so proud of you and always will be. I cannot put into words how happy it makes me to be your Pawpaw. I miss you and will love you forever.

Someday when you are 18 years old or older, I hope that you will search for me. I have never stopped loving you even if I am not allowed to see you.

All my love,

Pawpaw