On Wednesday the Earth will complete its 62nd revolution around the sun in my lifetime. While it seems impossible to believe, it doesn't necessarily feel bad, just a little weird. Like most people, I think, I feel a disconnect from how I feel and in my case the fact that my age starts with a "6," and doesn't end there. Eventually, I suppose, it will again, at least mentally.
I was gonna write a long piece about depression, the depression I've been in for years, how to deal with people with depression, how I had the date and method of my suicide worked out, how I then found the absolutely correct blend of meds that saved my life, but it all started to feel like my favorite Gary Larson cartoon "What Dogs Hear:" "Blah blah blah, blah blah blah," repeat ad infinitum and fade. Suffice it to say that I have seen the light through the blackness, that I am once again the person I used to like, and it's a miracle. Let's just listen to some music, then, like this:
Caravan Van Morrison
It's Johnny's Birthday George Harrison
The Happy Birthday Song Andrew Bird
The Birthday Present Loudon Wainwright III
Birthday The Fabs
Birthday Boy Ween
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby The Tune Weavers
Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 11) Thelonius Monk
Sweet And Shiny Eyes Bonnie Raitt
Have A Good Time Paul Simon
Long As I Can See The Light Marc Cohn
Spirit In The Light John Stewart
Shine A Light The Band
What Is The Light? The Flaming Lips
White Light Gene Clark
Different Light Steve Winwood
I Saw The Light Todd Rundgren
Sunlight The Youngbloods
Surrounded By The Light Terry Garthwaite
Arrows Of Light Bruce Cockburn
Light Shine Jesse Colin Young
Gypsy Lights Quicksilver
Heading For Light Traveling Wilburys
I Am The Light Of The World Jorma Kaukonen
The Inner Light The Fabs
Light Michael Nesmith
Light Come Shine John Stewart
The Light That as Lighted The World George Harrison
Shine A Light Rolling Stones
What Light Wilco
So c'mon along and celebrate my birthday a day early and my return to the light years late. Noon til twoish on WOOL FM, 91.5, or streaming around the whole goddam world at wool.fm. See you there.
Welcome Back - wait, wasn't that a theme song for a show about teachers and students.....you've been both, if my aging memory serves..
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