2021 mileage: 1749.0
During this morning's ride (1:42, 24.3 miles), I watched the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.
Its song Somewhere Over the Rainbow is greatly acclaimed. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was also given the Towering Song Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts ranked it Number One on their first Songs of the Century list.
It has, as well, a very special place in my heart. When my daughter Christy was an
infant, I used to dance slowly with her cradled gently to my chest in the living room of our home in Minnesota, singing it to her, to put her to sleep each evening.
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