Almost Forgot I Have A Blog

It's been too long since I've put anything here. Bad blogger! Bad!!!

First things first:

When I called Gabby from Yosemite on the day she got her biopsy results, she answered the phone with one word: "Benign". Whew... Although she and I had maintained a positive attitude about the whole thing and made a conscious effort to not energize the possibility that she/we might receive some bad news, I could feel some weight lifted off my mind when she said that word.

Yosemite memories to follow very soon. Suffice to say that my vacation was spectacular with a capital S and a capital PECTACULAR... Until I tell the tale, just one pic:

Me atop Sentinel Dome at 8122 ft., mere feet from where I proposed to Gabby in 2000. Silly girl, she said yes. It's been all downhill from there... at least for the seven hours it took us to hike back down to the Valley. ;-)

And now, the triumphant return of Song O' The Morn!

6/27/07 - In The Light - Led Zeppelin
From the 1975 double album Physical Graffiti. This track reminds me of how rarely I hear accolades given to John Paul Jones for his role in the band. Aside from his bass playing (matching Jimmy Page note-for-note on so many classic Page-associated riffs. Black Dog, anyone?), his keyboard playing is always interesting, as on this track or when sounding like a flute on Hairway To Steven (or when sounding like "a" as in neighbor and weigh). Generally, JPJ played what the song required, staying in the background while Page, Plant and Bonham took the superstar roles. Some choose to stay in the shadows, but everybody needs the light...

While in Yosemite, I didn't record any Song O' The Morns (or are they Songs O' The Morn?), but I am aware that I found the Boston song Don't Look Back in my head on numerous occasions, prob'ly 'cos I made a point of trying to get up as close to dawn as possible nearly each day. It's not their best song, but the new day and dawn references are what my early-morning brain seized on. Really, it's such a positive song, which makes hearing it (in my head or otherwise) bittersweet considering Boston lead singer Brad Delp's shocking suicide earlier this year. We'll miss ya, Brad.

(any lyric errors, blame Google. I'm too tired/lazy to muster up the energy to proof it)

Don't look back

A new day is breakin'

It's been too long since I felt this way

I don't mind where I get taken

The road is callin'

Today is the day

I can see

It took so long just to realize

I'm much too strong

Now to compromise

Now I see what I am is holding me down

I'll turn it around

I finally see the dawn arrivin'

I see beyond the road I'm drivin'

Far away and left behind

It's a new horizon and I'm awakin' now

Oh I see myself in a brand new way

The sun is shinin'

The clouds are breakin'

I cant lose now, theres no game to play

I can tell

There's no more time left to criticize

I've seen what I could not recognize

Everthing in my life was leading me on

But I can be strong

I finally see the dawn arrivin'

I see beyond the road I'm drivin'

Far away and left behind