Remember when the days were long..

My life is a soundtrack. It’s sectioned off in segments of time and there is music to match each and every little bit. My brain must be stimulated by auditory sounds, namely music, because I have always been this way. If you name any given time in my life, there is a song (or songs) that can take me back there in a heartbeat. I don’t know why I am like this but I have never known anything else. Today I was doing laundry and my daughter had her radio on. On a daily basis songs will come on the radio or TV that momentarily but instantaneously take me back to a different place and time. This seemed different somehow. This was a song that became popular back in the summer of 1989. It was at its height of popularity when two friends and I set out on a journey across the country that took us all the way to the west coast with a tent and a Volkswagen Fox. My friends were by no means pop music lovers at the time, but that song was inadvertently on any and all radio stations our whole trip out and each time this particular song would come on there would be a collective groan from my friends and a flip of the channel. Today the irony of that song becoming an anthem for that trip hit me for the first time. The song was Don Henley’s “The End of the Innocence” and back then I didn’t have a clue that it really was the end of innocence in a strange way. It was the trip of a lifetime for a young person of 22. I hadn’t done a lot of traveling so I saw parts of this country that I didn’t even know existed. Thank goodness I was wise enough to appreciate the power of mountains and oceans. It was a magnificent experience and I learned more about myself and what I was capable of. I didn’t know that it would act as a sort of nightcap to my true youth. What followed in the next year were real jobs and significant others and broader horizons. I wonder if that song repetition wasn’t some cosmic representation of the genuine end of innocence for me? I really can't say....maybe it was just a coincidence...

Quote of the Day-“Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance”
-W. Blake