Revelations in Companionionable Silence
Things come to light when a brother and sister drive home from the beach at night with two conked-out kids in the backseat. Especially when R.E.O. Speedwagon's Can't Fight this Feeling comes on the radio.
Saralinda's Brother: You know...this is really weird...I have this really weird association with this song.
Saralinda: Hmmuh?
Saralinda's Brother: Yeah, I actually think something might be wrong with me. Because it's weird, you know? Whenever I hear this song? I associate it with that scene from "Return of the Jedi" when the Ewoks and the Allies befriend each other and Wicket walks up to R2D2 and looks into his eye. And Wicket's the candle in the window on a cold dark winter's night.
Saralinda: ...................That's not weird at all.
Saralinda's Brother: ..............Please don't write about this on your blog.
We all have our weird song associations, though, I would gather. We were down at Galilee at sunset and beyond last night, it was beautiful and remains one of my favorite places on the planet. And I got Ivy's Edge of the Ocean caught in my brain, which of course got me thinking of Mike, because I've associated him with that song since he died. So I took the girls with me to put flowers on his grave this morning, and it wasn't there. !!!!!!!!! They'd taken up the markers to re-seed the turf I DON'T KNOW, but then a kind Irish groundskeeper tried to help me and I started crying. I'm fine I'm fine people until you try to help me. Then all emotional containment bets are off. I'll go back and try again maybe in a month. I'm not ready to be back yet.
So the trip to RI was good; I'll be going back in a few weeks to house-sit and take care of Stormy and Maggie while my brother is away on vacation. Everyone's going to be away that week as my sister is moving to her awesome new place and my parents will be gone again too.
Saralinda's Brother: You know...this is really weird...I have this really weird association with this song.
Saralinda: Hmmuh?
Saralinda's Brother: Yeah, I actually think something might be wrong with me. Because it's weird, you know? Whenever I hear this song? I associate it with that scene from "Return of the Jedi" when the Ewoks and the Allies befriend each other and Wicket walks up to R2D2 and looks into his eye. And Wicket's the candle in the window on a cold dark winter's night.
Saralinda: ...................That's not weird at all.
Saralinda's Brother: ..............Please don't write about this on your blog.
We all have our weird song associations, though, I would gather. We were down at Galilee at sunset and beyond last night, it was beautiful and remains one of my favorite places on the planet. And I got Ivy's Edge of the Ocean caught in my brain, which of course got me thinking of Mike, because I've associated him with that song since he died. So I took the girls with me to put flowers on his grave this morning, and it wasn't there. !!!!!!!!! They'd taken up the markers to re-seed the turf I DON'T KNOW, but then a kind Irish groundskeeper tried to help me and I started crying. I'm fine I'm fine people until you try to help me. Then all emotional containment bets are off. I'll go back and try again maybe in a month. I'm not ready to be back yet.
So the trip to RI was good; I'll be going back in a few weeks to house-sit and take care of Stormy and Maggie while my brother is away on vacation. Everyone's going to be away that week as my sister is moving to her awesome new place and my parents will be gone again too.