Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Yesterday the Beave and I went to town on the pretext of looking for a pair of shoes. Truth was we just wanted to get out of Dodge after being cooped up by the freeze of last week, and it was warm and sunny and just begging us to be anywhere but here. Turns out that's how everyone else felt too! We kept running into people we knew from post and from the Beave's school. It got to be a Let's Count How Many We've Seen game.

On reflection though it was more than that. It's a sense of belonging in the community. We were genuinely glad to see everyone, even if we had just seem them yesterday, or a couple of hours ago. When we found a spot in the crowded Panera's who do you suppose was sitting next to us? Friends from post! When we popped into Barnes and Noble we ran into more friendly folks.

So this is what it feels like to be a part of Mayberry. For us military families, it's hard to come by and once we find it, even harder to give up. But we will this summer and we'll have to start the whole process of integrating into a community again. The thing is, though some places it can take longer than others, we always manage to make ourselves feel at home and part of a place Where Everybody Knows Your Name.

Cheers Theme Lyrics

Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo - Cheers Lyrics

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.