In my mind / I can see reminders of a past decade / So far behind / Like the shadows linger at the close of day. / And we could see / We were timeless dreamers of another day. / And we were free / In a dawning age we had so much to say.
In 1985 I was driving home from work, the third Boston album had been released and whatever rock station I was listening to at the time was throwing out tracks from Third Stage. This song came on and I was hooked.
I suppose it was the perfect intersection with my own youthful exuberance and the intense earnestness of this song.
Oh, the nights you came to me
A bluejean lady so eager to be free.
And the wind in your long hair blowin’ as we stood for the band.
Oh, Hollyann.
Not often music can do that, just transport you. It usually happens when you remember circumstances long past because a song comes on the radio.
I was mowing the back lawn tonight, listening to my iPod. And I went fast forward and fast back at the same time.
The sky was that perfect robin’s egg blue. The sun sinking behind the trees in the west. I finished up mowing, replayed the song and stared at the sky. Remembering and wondering.
Audrey’s birthday is Sunday. Which is also the first day of summer. And father’s day. Some kind of weird confluence of circumstances put those on the same date.
I mentioned that when I talked to mom earlier. She asked I had seen Audrey lately, I haven’t. She saw her in a store and I swear it was all I could do to not start peppering her with questions.
I didn’t.
So. Happy Birthday summer girl.
This popped up on facebook today. The cruise video for my first fleet squadron in the Navy. There were only two guys I didn’t recognize. I joined months later.
Taco and Bench were still in the squadron when I arrived.
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