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January 04, 2009

And Above All

Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast is track 3 on the mix Parker gave me for Christmas.  It was the first song on there that caught my attention.  This is the second.  It's track 7.

I love how it doesn't reveal itself as a love song until the last verse.  And I love the mystery in that turn.

My brain is like a drummer
Trying to hold a groove

You know the whole song's about to change, but you don't know how.

Above the Thunder is track 10 on Home.

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January 02, 2009

Sailing

My cousin Parker drives to Wilmington, North Carolina to start his first semester of college tomorrow.  I cried thinking about him leaving tonight.  And not because I was sad that these past six months are over - a six months during which P and I have been geographically close enough to have had the option to hang out almost any day we've wanted to (and taken the option quite a bit).  But because I am overwhelmingly excited about how much I love that dude.  And because I am overwhelmingly excited about the next phase of our friendship, a phase that I'm sure will be even better.

Parker and I made a big connection listening to this song and talking about it this fall and winter.

It's called Sailing to Philadelphia, and it's track 2 on Sailing to Philadelphia.  Mark Knopfler and James Taylor are involved.

And that's P in the picture.  Our grandfather took my sister, our cousin Tyler, Parker, and me flyfishing one day last summer.

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