Jewells of Thought

Some of the most intriguing thoughts go through my mind in the car. I don’t know what it is? Perhaps the sense of just driving around or in this case being in the ‘shot gun’ seat heading on the road to my grandma’s house.

Driving to the house on our squiggly road seems more and more surreal. We have not needed to take this route to her house due to her new residence. Plus the mine has been making some changes at the dramatic curving turn that propels us past grandma’s church and on toward her house more a few more miles to the east.

I was born in the eighties so those are some of the most comforting songs to leisurely listen to when driving. I know I have heard this song, but something just grabbed my attention while listening this time. The chorus has always reached out for me and I have found myself humming it over and over again through the years. However, some words popped at me and I know now as an adult lyrics can be deceiving so I listen more intently as I didn’t before.

Do songs just grab you? Can you find yourself engrossed in the melody that you just have to sing or at least hum to the tune?

This happens to me a lot, but this time other intriguing thoughts began to unfold as I listened to that song late Tuesday afternoon. I don’t know if I could find anything with more irony than the ideas that were going through my mind as a musician, historian or even a woman.