Another Interesting Conversation

 My grandnephew, John, now in graduate school, again visited me last Sunday.  We always have engrossing conversations when he comes through St. Louis.  (See my Blog entry dated October 13, 2025, for an example.). One of his interests is music, and our conversation included my telling him that for days I had had the Beatle song refrain, "Mother Mary came to me, speaking words of wisdom, 'Let it be. Let it be.'"  He looked the song up on an app (Genius: Song Lyrics Finder) on his phone that provides background for the lyrics of a song. 

Turns out Paul McCartney, whose mother died when he was 14, had a dream in 1968 during a troubling period in his life.  His mother appeared to him in the dream and delivered a simple message (essentially, "Let it be.")  that he translated into song.  His mother's name was Mary McCartney. I better understood why that song was playing over and over in my head.