Thunder only happens when it’s raining.
I forgot to mention that I have discovered my super-power: Musical Prescience. When we were in Port Townsend, we were at the Public House I thought I heard Stevie Nicks over the bar speakers singing “Dreams”. It wasn’t, at first. No more than 10 minutes later, it came on. I accepted the challenge, and chose another song: Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”. The next day, our next meal, it came on while we chomped down on barbecue. I relish in my new-found power.
While musical prescience may never help me save the world, I know it will continue to power me through minor and major disapointment, including getting my second rejection letter of the application season, from Seattle University. That’s it for Seattle, it seems, so perhaps next year we’ll be somewhere else, which is fine, because it’s likely we’ll end up back here anyway, and it will be fun to live somewhere else; I just hope somewhere else will accept me.
The next song? Johnny Nash: I Can See Clearly Now.
April 27th, 2006 at 11:24 am
I have had the occasional incident in my life when i was humming, or thinking of a song, turned on the radio and voila! it’s on! I always chalked it up to either it was such a popular song a the time that the chances were good it would be in heavy rotation, or that the universe was trying to tell me something! Without exception, every time it has creeped me out. But i like your take on it, and from now on i am going to chalk it up to MY personal talent for “musical prescience”. My gift pales to yours, though. I have never had them come to me in bunches. You know, they filmed An Officer and a Gentelman at Fort Warden, so it makes me wonder, did you ever hear Love Lift Us UP Where We Belong in your head while you were there? That would be something, cause i do not imagine that song jumps in your head very often.
April 27th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
That dude’s name is joe cocker. Yacht Rock! that song did not pop in my head, thankfully.
June 9th, 2006 at 10:43 am
it has to run in the family. i, too, have the power.