Thank you, Pete Seeger, for many musical memories

Pete Seeger, Where have all the flowers gone?

We all have early memories music. 
Music programs at school or church where we were dressed in our very best and forbidden from doing anything messy until we made it though looking presentable. Practicing for piano lessons with that slightly or seriously scary piano teacher, depending on the day. 
Singing at the top of our lungs because it always sounded better in the bathroom with the door shut.

With Pete Seeger's music I am transported back to 1981, lying on my back and combing patterns into the carpeting while listening to my parents record player over and over again. When I heard, Where have all the flowers gone, as a child, even at a young age I knew it was about growing up and changing.  Years later, in my teens when it became one of the first songs I learned to play on my own guitar I listened more heard it as more of a protest song about doing the things we "have to" because it is what society expects. Now in my 30's I hear it much again like I did when I was five,  things move on and life's cycle of things we both can and cannot control, though we may try.  Regardless, it has brought me many years of peace. 

The ideas that were so prevalent in the music Pete Seeger both wrote and played were inspiring for many generations of people and I continue to hear the message of the preciousness of life and how at every turn, we all matter.   Peace to you, and thank you, Mr. Seeger.