Best Friends

It's so great to have dear friendships. Sadly that is something that is easily lost as people get older. Spouses, children, careers, added responsibilities all conspire to distract you from one of the most basic needs—friendships! I find it takes a lot more work to maintain close friendships at 50 then it did in my teens and twenties. Even if I am willing to make the effort and sacrifices to nurture a close friendship finding someone else (who I would want to be friends with in the first place) able to do the same can be very rare.

Music's Reentry

Music as made a powerful reentry into my life. Why now after all these years laying dormant? It went into hibernation the day poverty drove me to sell my LP collection—around 1974 I reckon. It's not to say that I went music-less during the intervening years. I had folk music and sea chanties and a bit of this and that to keep me company. But I wasn't driven like I was in the early '70s—and today.