To Brighter Days
Bamboleo! Bambolea!*
Porque mi vida yo la prefiero vivir asi!
bambolear - to stagger or sway, move freely without restriction
Went to the Gipsy Kings concert Saturday night, alone. It was a good concert. Not the best of the GK concerts I've seen (they didn't perform my favorite Triste Pena, and Tonino only sang on about half the songs), but their encore, Bamboleo, was worth the price of admission. No other concert experience comes close to the first time you hear 10,000+ people singing "Bamboleoooooooooo!"
And it was perhaps the most meaningful song for me, because right now my life seems to consist of staggering, or swaying or moving freely without restriction. Maybe I missed a left turn at Albuquerque, as Bugs Bunny would say. Just a few months ago, I couldn't have imagined my life would be like this.
But... it is what it is.
This isn't the life I've asked for in my prayers, but it's apparently where I need to be right now: putting my right foot in front of my left, chanting my mantra of "one day at a time", on a humbling pilgrimage to an unknown destination. The floors are dirty with dust wolverines, the bedrooms are barely navigable, I have a 12-pound unexpected houseguest (the tail-wagging kind) with a bladder the size of a chickpea, and my interpersonal communications consist of calling out answers while watching "Cash Cab" .... but I'm here.
And even though I don't exactly prefiero it that way, it's better than not being here at all.
The uneasiness will fade, in time.
The storm, like Gustav, will eventually pass.
Things will get better.
As Kenny Loggins says,"I'll ride the waves til a sunny day comes to me again."
Bamboleo! indeed.
Gracias, Gipsy Kings.