The closing scene in Shawshank - that’s my dream.

he gets out of jail but I really can't remember 100%.

Morgan Freeman walks up as he’s sanding a boat.

☀️

Not Baja, but the Pacific coast in Guerrero. Close enuff!

(1:15)

to boot. Better than my chicken scratch writing.

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilings
and drinks his green label each day.
Writing his memoirs, losing his hearing
but he don't care what most people say.
Through 86 years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say,
"Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
but I had a good life all the way."

I grew up near the water in Virginia’s Peninsula. Lots of Dead and Buffett.

My wife and I ended our vacation in Key West at the restaurant’s back porch he first played for tips in his guitar case.

Well, like to explain to you all before,
I ain't no drinkin' man
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
And I swore I'd never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still