No time. Moving sucks, but it will be soooo worth it. Someday.
Right?
All I leave you with today are a few lines from the FABULOUS new Indigo Girls album, All That We Let In. From the title song,
One day those toughies will be withered up and bent,
The father, son, the holy warriors, and the President,
With glory days of put-up dukes for all world to see,
Beaten into submission in the name of the free.
(all right, that’s a little rough on paper. But it sounds GOOD with them singin’ it. But this is what I was going for:)
We’re in evolution, I have heard it said.
Everyone’s so busy now, but do we move ahead?
Planets hurling, atoms splitting,
And a sweater for your love you sit there knitting.
Good god. Isn’t that great? An anti-Bush message shortly followed by a knitting-as-meditation reference? I hold myself squarely responsible for this song. Don’t you? (Course words and music are by Emily. And the song was written a year before I met them. And said meeting was fleeting. AND I only talked knitting with Amy. But hell. On the freeway, singing it loudly, I go with the dream.)
(And I wonder what the planets are hurling. And what’s a toughie? The IGals have never been grammar avengers. But sexy and smart, yeah. Okay. That was more than I meant to write. Cheers to you, and if I owe you an email, please be patient with me for a while….)
Mmmm. New album. I haven’t heard it yet, but then again I just bought Become You a few months ago. I’m not a big music person, and the Girls are really the only music I go out of my way to buy anymore.
Well it has been years since I’ve bought an IG album, but that makes me feel better about knitting. Sometimes I feel like I’m spinning wheels, as if there are more ‘important’ things to do. Good luck to you Lady Rach, when you are draggin’ from the movin’ just picture how AWESOME the new digs will be. 😉
OH MY GOD! I somehow missed that whole Amy Ray, Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin adventure the first time around? Is it possible that I was not reading on a daily basis only four months ago? Not possible.
Anyway, I’m freaking out!
As for the moving, I am in apartment three in four years. You’ll be okay. It’ll be crazy for awhile but it will be so worth it- the yellow, and the orange, and the wood floors, and the room for a dinner party.
Hang in there! And listen to the Girls for company. They are such great company!
Don’t even bring up that amazing conversation. *sigh*
Have fun moving – the new place looks fantastic!
I too am a big fan of IG, Dar, Patty Griffin and it was very fun to read of your adventures after the concert. What is the book called that your friend Brooke wrote?
toughies indeed…but knitting helps, ALWAYS! I’m not gonna make breakfast, but I’ll catch up with you to find out the meetup place on Friday…the mama news twasn’t a cell phone conversation, cuz I would have been weeeping too hard and I don’t want to worry the daughter bird. She said THE BEST PART OF THE TRIP was RACHAEL! Even better than Disney she says, and I agree! Hugs for the moving anxiety…can’t wait to see the Venetian RED!