Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Hangin' One More Year On The Line

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. 

2 comments:

  1. 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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  2. Love you, and glad you are here.

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