Thread by @owillis

that other thread reminds me of a mom story (think ive told it before but theres new people).

so in the 90s my mom bought a CD player when it was a new technology - one of those big ones with i think a 4-disc changer.

well one of the CDs my mom bought was this, from kenny g

my mom liked to play music when she cleaned the house. and my mom's a jamaican woman, so we cleaned house A LOT. she liked to play music while we cleaned (she did most of it, i had to vacuum the stairs, god i hated it).

one source of music was a tape of jamaican oldies...

and the other was the kenny g cd.

so now, some 30+ years later, i am triggered. i hear kenny g's silhouette and all i can think about is cleaning the house. i can literally smell the vacuum cleaner.

i believe i grew up in a very unique household. an american kid, a jamaican mother, with jamaican influences and lots of american stuff.

and kenny g.

(me and mom in front of our house around that era, sometime in early-mid 90s)

you can see from these pics my mom's good fashion sense and my consistent style as a dork

when she had to spend so much time in hospital towards the end, one of the things she disliked was how she didn't get to "dress nice" enough.

im not impartial but my mom consistently pulled off a look