Dateline Summer, 1973:
At a ripe old age of 9, this was the summer of a lifetime. Vivid memories such as walking barefoot the to Dairy Queen for a pineapple milkshake, putting up the tire swing in the pear tree and my best friend moving away.
The other day as I drove into town to run errands, I turned on the radio and hit scan. All the way through the FM dial, the radio looked for stations that had a clear signal. There are several stations we get here that have what's called "classic rock" and I almost always stop the scan on those stations. I'm not sure what it is about that era of music, but it takes me back to a time of wide-eyed innocence and naive hope. I guess it's just fun to go back and recall songs like this one:
See the curtains hangin' in the window, in the evenin' on a Friday night.
A little light a-shinin' through the window, lets me know everything is alright.
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind.
When I was a little girl, this song said to me: "this is what it will be like when you're all grown up". Now that I'm all grown up, this song says to me: "remember this?"
Sometimes, life is exactly like this song. Most of the time it's nothing like this song.
I have 2 girls that are the same age right now that I was when this Seals & Crofts song was a huge hit. I wonder what song they'll remember from this slice of their life, when they're all grown up? I also wonder what it is about that era of music that had my 16 year old in the kitchen the other day singing along with Roy Orbison and then Lynyrd Skynyrd. She would have made a great hippie (minus all the immoral junk - I'm referring to fashion sense & musical taste).
Can you tell I'm suffering from cabin fever? 
I think I'll go track down my Birks today. It never hurts to be prepared, right?
