{"id":127,"date":"2022-06-30T18:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","slug":"getting-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/30\/getting-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAlways Is Sometimes\u201d from the musical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"god-s-will-from\"><strong><em>GETTING EVERYTHING<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the opening song from a show about a troubled psychotherapist I wrote in the mid-1980s, which had a showcase production in the former Commons Theatre in Chicago. It\u2019s stayed with me as an ode to our fragility and a reminder of how miraculous and mysterious it is when people get together and stay together. &#8211;<em>J. Linn Allen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><strong>Susan met Ronnie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They ran off to Boulder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ronnie is drinking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Susan looks older<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert and Anne found truth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Beethoven quartets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Now Robert plays Bach all night<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anne has her pets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Always is sometimes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Completely is kind of<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The only love you find<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is take-what-you-find love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grasping at straws is life\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most typical act<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Soon all the straws you\u2019ve grasped<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are breaking your back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sharon ran out on Vic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To remarry her ex.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vic\u2019s become Vicky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He\u2019s ex from his sex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Always is sometimes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Completely is kind of<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The only love you find<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is take-what-you-find love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grasping at straws is life\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most typical act<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Soon all the straws you\u2019ve grasped<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are breaking your back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GETTING EVERYTHING This is the opening song from a show about a troubled psychotherapist I wrote in the mid-1980s, which had a showcase production in the former Commons Theatre in Chicago. It\u2019s stayed with me as an ode to our fragility and a reminder of how miraculous and mysterious it is when people get together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}