Loss is never easy, it’s hard to say that some loss is tougher than others as they all hurt. Sometimes, though, it just cuts more deeply, or at least it seems that way.

Four years ago today, I got a message that Uncle Dominick P. Starace has passed away. If you’ve read before, you know how I felt and what he meant to me and why. I’ll not put you though a repeat, if you’ve not read and are at all interested, you can go back to the archives and find a couple of posts about him. I believe the last one was titled “I can hear your voice in the wind”…

Today, the sun is shining in Bluffton, SC and I’ve listened to Cliff Eberhardt’s song The Long Road (the song both the title of this and the prior one are taken from) while I’m typing. The house agnostic can’t help but feel today, that his smile is still there and is somehow pushing the sun out to shine today.

I miss him…

There are the ones you call friends
There are the ones you call late at night
There are the ones who sweep away your past
With one wave of the hand
There are the ones you call family
There are the ones you hold close to your heart
There are the ones who see danger in you
And won’t understand

I can hear your voice in the wind
Are you calling to me? Down the long road
Do you really think that there’s an end
I have followed my dreams, down the long road

You are the one that I met long ago
You are the one who saw my dream
You are the one who took me from my home
And left me off somewhere
Somehow I feel you are here
You are waiting in that dream
Somewhere down this road we will awake
And be at the start again

I can hear your voice in the wind
Are you calling to me? Down the long road
Do you really think that there’s an end?
I have lived my whole life, down the long road
I’ve got to find you tonight
Are you waiting for me?
I have followed my dream
I have lived my whole life
Are you waiting for me?

I can hear your voice in the wind
Are you calling to me? Down the long road
Do you really think that there’s an end
I have followed my dream, down the long road

I can hear your voice in the wind
Are you calling to me? Down the long road
Do you really think that there’s an end
I will live my whole life, down the long road

I can hear your voice in the wind
Are you calling to me? Down the long road
Do you really think that there’s an end
I have followed my dreams, down the long road