I’m listening to my Lyle Lovett station on Pandora, loud, surprised that each song is something that fits exactly the mood I’m in, although that’s the magic of Pandora – the genetic coding of music to create caches of similar tonality, rhythm, mood, even vocal range. It would be like going to Baskin Robbins and […]
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Dancing Around the Living Room
Posted in Children, Music on January 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Chevy Van
Posted in Music, Reminiscences, Young Love on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I parked next to a battered blue van today, and when the “Chevy Van” lettering on its passenger side came into view, it was like someone had released the “Pause” button and the song resumed. I was immediately transported to the 13-year-old I was in 1975, engulfed in emotions, longings, and body sway, lost in […]
Reason #142 Why I Love My Husband
Posted in Country Music, Emotions/Inner World, Husbands, Marriage, Music on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He tears up at the same country music lyrics that I do.
Musical Interlude
Posted in Beauty, Friendship, Midlife, Music, Poetry, Women, Youth on May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A while back, I attended a house concert that proved to be an unexpected delight. The evening was a perfect combination of youth, beauty, music, a glass of unexceptional red wine (as far as I can tell, large pot-luck events seem to yield an abundance of unexceptional wines, and the one I contributed was no […]
Florence and George
Posted in Country Music, Death/Loss/Grief, Family, Grandparents, Music on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Write this down, take a little note To remind you in case you didn’t know Tell yourself I love you and I don’t want you to go Write this down.” -George Strait, 1999 I heard this George Strait song on the radio, and it brought my Grandma Florence back to me. I could almost […]