When I’m in the kitchen doing the dishes or making dinner or whatever, I don’t hum a little tune. Yodoh doh-doh dodee doh… Some other times as well, but mostly while doing kitchen things. It’s not something I think about, it’s just something I do – have done for years and years. Always the same tune. Maybe a little variation in the second or third verse – if I get around to them.

At times I have wondered where it came from. I have no idea if it came from anywhere. I have never made a real effort to figure it out, but it’s not a tune that Ellyn recognizes. It’s the Kurt fussing in the kitchen tune.

Maybe a couple of months ago, I started another tune. Doopee doopee doop-doop-doo doopee doo doopee doo… I didn’t think anything of it; a little surprised. But when fussing in the kitchen the new tune stuck. And I had trouble even remembering the old tune. I have no idea where the new tune came from, but it seems to be my new tune.

After years, maybe decades, I have changed my tune. Not on purpose, but suddenly and seemingly permanently. Which feels weird.

We’ve all heard the expression that someone has changed their tune. Is this where it comes from? Do [some] other people have little tunes in their heads that suddenly change? I’d never given the expression much though, but now I really wonder.