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Home Town: Won't you Listen Now
Seeing videos of Mona and Lisa back in their childhood hometown the last couple weeks, made me yearn to watch and listen to this sweet beautiful gem, that I’m sure captures some familiar scenes of their home town.
Places we grew up are forever engrained in our soul, and will always be very special. For us the time will come when we will have to sell the house the Roe siblings grew up in, which will be hard. I could feel some sadness in Mona and Lisa’s voice as they talked about their old place and selling it. How lucky we are to have something that saying good bye to is so hard.🧡
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For my money this is one of MLT’s most underrated videos. I love the playful innocence and the 1930’s-like setting. Altogether it just looks like the inspiration for a Norman Rockwell portrait. Thanks for the plug, Jung!
My dad died a year ago, and now my mom is all alone in the house we kids grew up in, getting around with a wheelchair and a walker. She’s fine for now, but I’m sure my siblings and I are all thinking about the day not too far off when we have to say goodbye to our childhood home. We’ve already gone through a few boxes of old stuff, but that pales into comparison to eventually clearing out all the furniture and leaving an empty shell for some stranger to occupy from then on.
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Sorry to hear that, my condolences David for your father. Places we called home are so special and come moving day is very hard indeed, because it became a part of your life. The old office I worked at for 30 years downtown, was like a home as I spent such a big part of my life there literally, so the last day I was there, I remember that moment as I left the front door lobby for the very last time, I had to stop and look back and take a moment. If that security camera was the same one that was there in 1989, it would have captured a young 26 years old all nervous and excited walking to work for the first time, and then a 56 years old leaving the same door 30 years later with so many memories and experiences, turning one last time to say an emotional goodbye, and turning off the light.
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Jung, you’re bringing something to mind…
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Thanks David for sharing the video. It’s exactly how I felt.
“Is it true that the good times have passed”
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Hi Jung,
letting go is often difficult in life. Especially from places we loved and with which we associate beautiful memories. “Life is a long, calm river”. That’s the title of a movie by the French director Étienne Chatiliez. It’s an allusion to the fact that our life appears calm, leisurely, and slow on the surface, but is actually seething beneath the surface. And I think that’s how life has been for many of us: Unexpected, full of surprises and sudden turns that we didn’t expect. Often beautiful, unfortunately also far too often sad. I can still visit my parents’ house after my mother’s death, but it is no longer the house of my childhood. Whenever I enter the house, my memories are already waiting there for me. They wander around, make me see things that are no longer there, think of things I thought I’d already forgotten. And then I realize that it’s also good to just let go. The house of my childhood: beautiful and ephemeral. My memories: interwoven with me and my life forever. New experiences await us. To be lived. To accompany us. To become memories again. To remind us that we are alive.
And yet it is important that there are such places: where we can reminisce.
Music is such a place to come back to. A constant in my life that can give me strength and patience when life presses too hard again.
„There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain“These lines have always particularly touched me; all my life.
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Hi Jurgen
Thanks for highlighting those beautiful lyrics, and letting me go back to experience that beautiful MLT video again, I feel the same way. As chapters in our lives close and we feel sad to have to move on, it’s all about new chapters to unfold, experience, and cherish. But it is so wonderful to have those fond memories of places and people that are precious gems that stay with you forever. When I visit my parents old house, it is bittersweet when the star of those times is no longer here.
In the back of my journal I have a growing entry of inspiring quotes I’ve been collecting, and copy over to the next journal. One of them that stand out for me is how every thing good comes to an end, sometimes tragically, but it was everything in between that was so precious and timeless, all the small moments that add up into incredible fond memories.
“Sometimes love does not have the most honourable beginnings, and the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for” – Ann Patchett.
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One of my favorite videos!! Mona is so captivating she could be a movie star, but I am glad she’s a MonaLisa Twin! And, Rudi is so funny. Lisa is beautiful and her support of her little sister is inspiring. I know Michaela is working hard behind the scenes and I am always amazed by the cohesive family involvement to produce awesome videos and recordings for us. Just a totally amazing family. We are so fortunate to benefit from their unique, very special, hard work, dedication and talent. 👏👏👏💙❤️💛❤️👏👏👏🎶
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Hi Jerry,
With team MLT, it’s not only their beautiful and amazing music that touch and inspire, it’s the way they create it with so much love and passion, and the wonderful family and people they are. They truly inspire us to aim for a higher bar.
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Ahhh…. the childhood home, I had grown up in was a wedding gift from my Grandparents ( my late Mom’s parents ) and Grandpa, my uncle (Late Mom’s eldest brother ) and whomever else took part in custom building the house vack in 1960-61-sh as Mom n Dad married in 1962 …the house was a bungalow, built to last….it indeed did , yes, over time it began to have repairs having done to it, etc…. but one if few features inside, was custom built kitchen cabinetry/countertop to accommodate Mom’s tiny stature of being around 4’10”-ish…I’m 4’6-ish ….the cabinetry above was high but a tad lowered than standard height, and countertop lowered again for Mom ‘s sake, than the standard.. had a built in chiba cabinet in the dining room, a one step sunken living room…etc…
Once we sold the house to the ones we sold to….it was property lot they wanted , not house, the house demolished…my older brothers and I couldn’t bear going by there during that process but our aunt who was living next door gave us updates …. we went by after tge new building was up in place of where our house had been…. even now to go to cemetery on special occasions except for Xmas as cemetery read not ploughed in winter , and not see the house, is still kinda sad but do gave photos/memories of it …. last year or year before for a Xmas gift, my 2nd oldest & I got a photo jigsaw puzzle of the house.
Yes, a bittersweet time when a childhood home is sold/demolished, etc but it’s the memories that live as home in our hearts …🫶🤘🏻🏠
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Thanks Jacki for sharing the memories of your childhood home. It seems unavoidably the experience of life is bittersweet, but we are all so lucky to have had all the fond moments that were so sweet that make us look back with longing for those moments.
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