On my YouTube channel I have a goal in July to post a new song every day for the month. It started the other day with an ode to the first “date” I had with the woman who would be my wife. I call it a “date” because it was really just a re-connecting after 20+ years (we met in high school) and didn’t intend for it to lead to us getting married. Somehow, on this “date,” she didn’t run away screaming even after my conversations about solar powered garbage cans, red-winged blackbirds, and crabapple trees.