I PROPOSE FAIR & SQUARE TO MAKE YOU AWARE MY AIM IS TO PREPARE & SHARE A CARE PACKAGE

As a caring, sharing guy who today has nothing better to post, I thought I’d prepare a package you can peruse of more or less carefully selected quotes and music about CARE. If you couldn’t care less, I forgive you and give you permission to peruse no more. Simply pay a fine of all your money and proceed to the nearest exit, which is at the end of the post so you get your money’s worth.

Thank you for electing to continue. As I was saying before being so rudely interrupted, this post will be a care package in quote-and-music form, but not in that order (that would be putting the quote before the chorus). Let us thus begin with this:

Next is this lament penned in 1921 by the legendary W. C. Handy, known as the “Father of the Blues” for such immortal compositions as ST. LOUIS BLUES and MEMPHIS BLUES:

We conclude the musical portion of the program with a song I may not have included If I Didn’t Care:

We close by giving the post an equal amount of quotes (if not equal time) as the musical numbers:

“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” –Mickey Mantle

“Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.” –George Bernard Shaw

“God takes care of fools, drunks, and the United States of America.” –Stephen Leacock

Even Stephen, the late Canadian humor writer, wasn’t prescient about the Almighty taking care of America — at least, not forever, for God seems to be falling down on the job lately….if not, you could’ve fooled me.