What I do with my days

So what do I do with my days, he asked.
I put my Internet devices away so I am not distracted.
I decide to watch a movie.
In the movie, there is a song playing in the background.
The song is completely unimportant to the plot of the movie.
I almost but not quite recognize it.
I start humming along, but most of the words escape me.
The song has long since stopped playing in the movie.
I stop paying attention to the movie.
I will die if I can’t figure out what the fucking song is.
I want to figure it out myself like I would have before the Internet.
i don’t want to skip to the credits.
i want to know now.
I think I remember hearing someone performing it at the Lane County Fair when I was a kid.
It was not the same artist that performed it in the movie.
I hum and sing.
I ask the cat if he knows.
I turn the movie off and make tea.
I wander around the house.
I swear.
I kick a cat toy.
I go and get my phone and type the snippet of a lyric that i caught into Google.
OK then.
Tom T. Hall.
Really?
“I love,” aka the little baby duck song.
The version in the movie was done by Jason Mraz
I drink the tea.
I turn the movie back on.

That is what I do with my days.
Then I write it all down.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=65AuuFpNFxY

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