April 16, 2005
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Let's Do the Time Warp ...
I've mentioned it often enough that I'm sure you're starting to wish I'd get over it. My CD wallet was stolen over Christmas and I've suffered from the loss of my music. Well, recently, I've been surfing around thinking about what songs I really WANT to have in my collection. Listening to bits and pieces here and there. (Napster is great for that, listen to a half minute segment of any song in their million song library.)
The songs I've been drawn to most are the songs I loved in the 80's. Songs that I associate with discovery, wonder, hope, dreams, passion and freedom. I've heard notes and phrases over the past couple weeks that I haven't heard in fifteen or twenty years. And I've been transported to that time of my life. It's strange being 40-ish. I have all these memories and experience. I have the knowledge and (hopefully) wisdom gained of living through decades of mistakes. But I hear these songs and I'm reckless and daring again. I forget that in real life there's no safety net. Or maybe I've remembered that in life there is no safety net.
Wanna come over and join me? Let's drink herbal tea, write a poem, draw a sketch, ask a question that can't be answered and chew it back and forth. Maybe someone will bring a bottle of wine, and I'll be cooking later. Then we may go for a hike, just because the it's a beautiful day and we have too much energy to sit around. We can climb the rocks beside the lake and lie back with the sun warm on our face.
Back in the time of my life that I used to spend my Saturday this way, I was a smoker. I'm trying to keep the smell of smoke out of my vision but I can see that blue haze at the corner. I haven't even wanted to smoke in ... forever. But listening to these songs I feel my hand reaching for a lighter that I haven't owned in 18 years. It had a little daisy engraved on it. For several years after I quit smoking I still had the lighter and used it to light candles. Now I have candles and one of those stick lighters with a child proof trigger that you see next to the register at the discount store.
<shakes head to clear image>
So that's what I think about, and where I go when I want to think about something other than responsibility for laundry, kids, science fair projects, bills due ...
Comments (8)
I've been reading mostly nonfiction lately. A Great and Noble Scheme, by John Mack Faragher, is about the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards, by Jay Feldman, is about the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812. The Lost German Slave Girl, by John Bailey, is about a German immigrant in New Orleans in the 1840s who thought she recognized a mulatto slave as the long-lost daughter of her best friend from the old country, and the legal battle to determine whether Sally Miller was really a slave or not.
The upcoming novel I'm most looking forward to right now is Zorro, by Isabel Allende.
Your idea sounds really exciting. Do you suppose I could read along and seldom write. I don't like to say too much and writing isn't my best thing. However, I do love to read and enjoy others' thoughts.
Yes, it sounds very ambitious, but fun, and a good way for me to get off my tush and back into Xanga.
But I have to admit, the first part of the blog... bottle of wine... it just made me smile, because it's actually finally going to be reality! Yay us!!!
I might like to give that a try - I finish work for the year on May 27 so that will free up READING TIME
I like it!
May 3.
Thanks for your visit to me .I used to visit you yonks ago, but somehow you have been off my list ,so then I forget. I think that is not a bad idea you suggested ,so will reinstate you and keep an eye on the topic from first of May Cheers Marj
Harry Potter.
Hell, when you said, "Lets do the time warp..." I went right to Rocky Horror Picture show!!!
Yeah...
Retro Dread Pirate!!
Sail on... sail on!!!
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