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48. Windsong

Reply to Bertha Venation (Original post)

Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:30 PM

Jul 2013

for some reason, this song pops into my head often. I must've been 9 or 10, and it was a warm Friday summer evening, around 7:00, the windows were open and a soft breeze was blowing the curtains, and the sun was pouring into the windows of our tiny depressing little apartment, and I could hear my mother fixing dinner in the tiniest kitchen you can imagine... and this commercial came on right at that moment. We were very poor, but it was just before my Mom began her COBOL training and got promoted, changing our lives forever for the better. Anyway, there was something perfect and sublime about that summer evening, and the song playing on that commercial, and now whenever that song pops into my head, a wave of contentment washes over me and puts me right back into that perfect moment. Being poor must not have mattered, I don't remember that... I remember this, and how it made me feel, and still makes me feel. Weird, huh?

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