i'm taking the long way home this time; i've been on the road for three days, and now i'm almost there. i'm about to leave mikkee's house (hi mikkee! i'm using your computer, i didn't think you'd mind. i told you, i can get sucked in to this thing), and i'll meet stephanie & co. for lunch (hi steph, i'm probably going to be a little later than 11:30), and then i'm headed home. it's been a fun week. lots of coffee, LOTS of conversation ... lexington is a much cooler town than i remembered it. wilmore is exactly the same. i saw cindy and elizabeth and i thought i saw melinda (i yelled out the door for a few minutes before i realized it wasn't you. oops) and mikkee and her roommate(s). i went to fido and it felt like home, even though i'm not quite there yet ... anyway, i mostly stopped in to say hello and to add a thought to the conversation allison and heather are having (somewhere in the blogworld - it all runs together for me) about derek webb quotes. the one that i find myself quoting most days is this:
the truth is never sexy
and it's not an easy sell
you can dress her like the culture
but she'll shock them just as well
it's so true. it's so true. it's SO true.
one other thing - i can't believe how beautiful the south is in the springtime. i think i got so used to seeing brown prairies against grey skies that i forgot color EXISTED in the natural world. kentucky and tennessee are so HILLY and GREEN and SUNNY. it's beautiful around here ...
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you should listen to the Indigo Girl's "Southland in the Springtime" on your drive home!! It's all about driving south... Here's the words just for fun---
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning
Light the bayou with our taillights in the night
800 miles to El Paso from the state line
And we never have the money for the flight
I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel
Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans
I'm dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean
And there's something bout the Southland in the springtime
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason
Though I miss her when I'm gone it won't ever be too long
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season
When God made me born a yankee He was teasin'
There's no place like home and none more pleasin'
Than the Southland in the springtime
In Georgia nights are softer than a whisper
Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations
And the peach trees stitched across the land
There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside
And boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers
And the smoke from the chimney meets its maker in the sky
With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers.
How did I not know about this song until now?!?! I love it - my favorite line is, "When God made me born a Yankee He was teasin'" There really is little as great as the South in the Spring!
I recently posted those lyrics on my blog.
I loved Wilmore. Loved it. As for Lexington. If it weren't for all the royal blue I wouldn't have even known it was KY. Nothing at all like my hometown.
PS Indigo Girls is another band I do not know. I should make a list.
heather. heather! i've been playing good music for you for years ... i'm going to start documenting these things. indigo girls? how can you not know? look up "mystery" and "least complicated" and "ghost" and "language or the kiss" RIGHT NOW. i'm sending you an emergency kit of folk music as soon as my computer is plugged back up.
also, you asked about sandra mccracken. the song you liked was "sunday morning." "springtime indiana" and "gypsy flat road" are also good.
elizabeth gave me suzanne vega when i was in ky. mary? ever heard of her? she actually sang the annoying one hit wonder from the 90's ... "i am sitting in a diner with the man behind the counter ... doo da doo doo doo da doo doo doo da doo doo doo da doo doo ..." but her other music is good.
janet thanks for sharing this one - i had not heard/seen it before. the one that is most applicable to my life right now is "watershed."
I love love love Suzanne Vega - "if you were in my movie" is the bestest by her, I think. sweeeet! (janet) (that indigo girl stuff is carrie) (although I love them, too. Galileo is my favorite right now, along with Kid Fears. beautiful writing, awesome voices. yeeeehaw!)
actually, Galileo has always been my favorite by the IG's.
'how long till my soul gets it right...?'
-- janet
I like that Suzanne Vega dinner song. It is all I know by her though. The problem with playing music for me, is I usually have to hear a song over an dover before it really starts getting to me. When I get a new CD, I drive Corey nuts, b/c I repeat play it until I know it. It is rare that I hear a song once and love it (I did with Extraordinary Machine, but it took a few weeks for the rest of the CD to sink in and now I love the whole thing). Am I strange? So, I always welcome new music, but I like to play it in my car for a week or so and then I will decide how I like it. Yea yea... I'm an odd duck. I never claim otherwise.
sorry, I should really sign my name to these things. :) janet IS the more likely of we two to post song lyrics...I was channeling her when I did it. :)
Indigo Girls are easily one of my favorites EVER. Heather, Ican't believe you've not listened to them. Steph, those are all great suggestions. Galileo is a great one too. LOOOOOVEEEEE indigo girls!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
That's one of my fav lines too "when God made me a Yankee he was teasin'". great line.
--Carrie
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