I seem to be stuck on listening to the Grateful Dead lately. There is a song called Morning Dew that the Grateful Dead cover. I use this song as my morning alarm. The song is a folk song originally written and performed by Bonnie Dobson in 1962. She was inspired to write this after watching the movie ‘On the Beach” starring Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins. A movie about after the Nuclear apocalypse , when the fallout has not hit a coastal province in Australia–yet. They’re just waiting their fate as the cloud moves towards them. I have vivid memories of the Cuban missile crisis. My Dad ( in the Air Force) was on Alert, Defcon 3. He had his flight bag by the front door, we were doing duck and cover drills at school in case of nuclear attack. I was only 7 but could feel all the panic of the time. We were in South Georgia, Warner Robins AFB, all the kids at school worried about their Dads and stressing over the drills . All of us crouched down on the floor with our hands over our heads, “we need to practice in case a bomb drops” we’re told, “cover your heads to protect yourself from flying glass” we’re told.
