"Get On The GOOD Foot!"

    I am not sure if that is a line from a James Brown song, or a Southern Slang? Maybe both, but as of late, I may have a problem.
    Eight years ago, this July, I lost my boy. At 25, he was with us, and in a blink, he was gone. Forever, is a long time. That horrific morning, I was crushed and died, never to be the same. I lost my footing.
   But...each day..I had to put two feet down, and try to walk. Walking, meant I was alive, and functioning, somehow. Then I broke my leg and now my foot, on the same side! In a five year period, I have been crippled, with broken bones. On top of being crippled with grief. Somehow, I think they may be related.
  I have had a hard time, finding the good foot! but I remain searching!
  My youngest son, Hart, the fav, ( all my kids would say that!) ( what-ev) is getting married this summer, and I just want to be upright and not in pain. Able to dance and celebrate at his hoopla of a wedding. Its in New Orleans, a city that I love and has always spoke to me!!! ( I will not share details!)
   I have a big reunion, 45 years of loving grade school, middle school and high school friends, coming together for a few hours to chat, laugh and compare who looks the oldest! All of the girls, look sweet, cute and divine! So we will see. I just want to be able to not drag my foot, or walk like my father!! ( three hips replaced!) ( I think I already walk like Homer!) Each weekend, from now until the end of June, is maxed out, and I need my good foot! ( I think we are in March, right?)
  One of my friends daughter has lost two children, infants in the last couple of years, so I have been searching for words to send her. I wish I did not know how she feels, and I don't really, I just know my grief, but I do need to send "My Good Foot" love and wisdom her way!
  My brother in law, just had heart surgery for the second time, we head there, next week, Hilton Head, Jacksonville. My sister in law, lost her ex-husband this week, divorced hundreds of years ago, but....He is her only daughters daddy. She needs "My Good Foot" sent her way, I need to be well, and helpful to so many. Wedding showers, here and there, require my lovely mom to the groom spirit, and feet planted ever so firmly, with a tap dance in my step, now and then.
  Life is full, full, full, and my feet need not fail me now!
  I need my brother to sing like James Brown for me, one time!! He does him so good, I can see him now!
  "Get On The Good Foot!" lord, I so am trying.
   I  love you Ward, and know you are next to me, on so many days!" Mama gotta brand new bag!" is that a James Brown song?? HEEEY( I just said that like you know who!)