What is it about rediscovery that is so intriguing? For me, it hit me like a right hook from Evander Holyfield. I was digging through the crates and found some music I had fallen out of touch with. Some I felt I had outgrown but some hit a chord that took me back to a place in time... so vivid, so clear, so real. It's peculiar how we can hear the same song, but had time go by and shape our lives through experiences that we find a new meaning in things. Or, we may have been able to relate to the song but now we relate in a way that is more full and deep. It was like I was a freshman in high school all over again or walking through the common on the campus of The University of Montana - Missoula in the Fall.
So I am jamming to Incubus, M 83, Foster the People, Built to Spill and Purity Ring (not all at the same time but throughout the day) when a novel on my bookshelf sort of calls out to me in a way only in the movies. The light hit it just so as the symphony in the background began to play... anyway, I grab the book, Killing Floor by: Lee Child and read through the first forty pages. I look up, completely lost, and realize I need to eat. All of this happened over the course of a couple of hours and I felt like it could have been a year's time for all of the music and reading I had poured over. It's like we are connected to certain songs, novels, magazines, people, whatever... and no matter the time or space in between, we'll still have a connection to these things.
"It's crazy how freedom can make us feel contained." - Waste by Foster the People.
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