these are the good old days

Today, after dropping my son off at school, Carly Simon came on my radio. Is it still called a radio? This sounds old fashioned. Anyway, the song was Anticipation. This is one of those songs from my childhood, and one that I was never all that crazy about. My parents loved her. Oh man it makes me miss my mom so much. The song made me feel blue when I was little. I didn’t know what the heck she was singing about. But now. I heard, “these are the good old days” in a whole new way. It’s like it grabbed me by the collar and shook me.

I love that about art so much. That I can read a book I read 5 years ago and feel something totally different than when I read it the first time.

So when I heard this song today…this is what I heard and I realize you all probably got this the first time. (insert lol emoji). But I heard please stop worrying about this and that and all of it. Because you will look back when you are sitting in your chair drinking lemonade or whisky or whatever and laugh with your cousin or old friend and say, “those were the good old days.”

Even if those days were messy and awful at points. You won’t really remember that part too much. What will stand out is that you were all together, you were young and maybe more flexible, but who cares. So much of the stuff that occupies our heads is nonsense and noise. Just know that so you can come back and smile about the good old days that are happening right now opening up before us like a new, freshly printed book.

Thanks Carly for the song. And my parents were right. Again. She is awesome and that song is great. Yes, it made me cry today but also smile and laugh a little too.