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My Aunty Lou
I'm going back in time, once again, to visit my great great aunt, Lou Goodale Bigelow. I knew "Aunty Lou," and would visit ...
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I took a vacation in the first week of May. I went back to my high school and college stomping grounds, still populated by many friends of... -
I have a dear friend who I met in my Creative Writing class my freshman year in college. I sent the poem to her for her comments and edits ...
Homeward Bound and America were two of my favourite songs way back when. I was particularly impressed with the lyrics of America - not a single rhyme in the whole song, not many people could do that. Paul may look handsome but yet another bad hair day for Mr Garfunkel!
ReplyDeleteI so love the music of Simon and Garfunkel. Thank you for this.
ReplyDeleteHearing these two songs in the context of the Central Park concert in 1981 stirs up plenty of old memories, beginning with those from 1981 and then going back to 1975 (American Tune) and 1968 (America). So many scenes from our lives have that music in the background. Just occurred to me that this concert took place about 9 months after the violent death of John Lennon. Organizing that concert was an act of generosity.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, today I received a check in the mail from a local independent record store that is selling my vinyl album collection (200 albums) on consignment. A young person came in recently and bought my copy of Simon and Garfunkel's "Bookends." Young people are definitely interested in buying our old vinyl albums. Last year I did a thorough spring cleaning and made the decision to let go of my vinyl album collection (and turntable), but kept my beloved collection of Bob Dylan albums which consists of every Bob Dylan album from 1962 to 1989, which is when I started buying cassette tapes instead of vinyl albums.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were 40 years old in 1981. I was 31 in 1981, and 40 years old seemed a long way away. Not old old but not young either. Then when I turned 40, it didn't seem that old at all. From where I am at age 70, 40 looks younger than it did when I was 40 (-:
Thank you for this music today!
I have all their songs on a playlist. I listen to them almost every day.
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