Music then and now
Music has been my companion since birth and will be with me until my final breath. My favorite choices in music remain while others lose favor only to return later. Then there are some genres that do get limited play time with me - country - while others never make it at all - opera.
How I listen to music has changed though. When I was young and full of spirit, it made my body move and took me to places my adventurous mind liked.
It’s over 40 years later, and I listen now for the memories and to return my spirit to those earlier days. As for moving to the music, I can still get down, but I have trouble getting back up. Beside that, no one wants to see an aging boomer do the boogaloo.
Smokey Robinson sings “Tracks of My Tears”, and I remember slow dancing at Bishop Shanahan’s teen dances. As a bonus, Joni Mitchell sharply describes the event in “Come In From the Cold.”
I listen to “Loving Her Is Easier Then Anything I’ll Ever Do Again” and marvel at how Kris Kristofferson was able to capture the depths a man can love a woman.
When Janis Joplin belts out “Piece of My Heart”, I mourn the loss of this giant talent and remember wishing I could have been there to save her from herself.
I hope the sound track of your life treats you this well.