It’s hard not to feel autumn's nostalgia in light of the ‘80s song (the Cars “Magic”) playing on the radio now. I’m even nostalgic for Hambone's nostalga, nostalgic for his early '90s-era contemplative Floyd-ian white guitar chords and Alice ‘n Chains predilection. I recall the reverie produced by a 1975 Pizza Hut, the Osmond song “Deep Purple” playing in the background while drinking rootbeer from one of those ‘70s coolmoe purple glasses. Even back then I think the drinks were refillable. And the pizza was delectable.
If there’s a country song that has stood the test of time it’s John Conlee’s “Rose-colored Glasses”. Brings me immediately to our one visit to the Grand Ole Opry. It tears a gut to hear it to this day, brings to the lips the taste of mint julep, both because of the song itself and its context. The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Gonna Take a Lot of River” is another classic. “Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio / Gonna take a lot of river / To wash these blues away.” The song sounds like a river, with rumbling bass and warbling tenor.
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 | The Word Among Us has a winsome image of Pompeo Batoni's "Holy Family" on the cover for October. How beautiful. Jesus grabs his mother’s wide, swan-like neck. How sweet her gaze! (The picture at left doesn't do it justice.) How wrong for men to think they've outgrown the need for womanly breasts (figuratively speaking), or to see the sweet succulence of God as other than a necessity. And the child Jesus is greedy, hungry for love, and it's a incomprehensibility that God thirsts for our love but there you have it... |
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