So…Now What?

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What do you do after a vacation like that?? Recover. Seriously, the long drive that I inflicted on myself to get home for my friend’s funeral (the equivalent of driving what I’d planned to cover over four days in two days) had my back screaming at me…after I’d just managed to shut it up over the climbing and pulling when I went to Delphi, Indiana. I texted my brother, saying, “I’ll bet I know what you’re doing today.” With much nicer temperatures (it may have made it to 80F, but didn’t go over it), I was sure he was out playing golf. Oh, no. “I’m still recovering,” he told me. “We don’t bounce back like we used to,” I replied. “No, we don’t.” Being over 60 is example after example of someone letting the air out of your basketball so you can’t bounce back. I’m doing my exercises and resting. Tomorrow I take the car in for the “gee, how did I get 5,000 miles on it so quickly” oil change. I’m also enjoying music documentaries. In the past couple of days I’ve watched documentaries on country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons and jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Tal Farlow. Why? Why not! Fascinating stuff. I learned I didn’t want to know much about Parsons (great songwriter, not too good as a human being), and was mesmerized by the innovation of Farlow and Christian. Charlie Christian was only 25 when he died of TB in 1942, but he was a trendsetter on guitar (playing lead AND electric)…not to mention he was a Black man playing in white bandleader Benny Goodman’s sextet in the 30s! Y’all have a great evening. Here’s some music from Charlie Christian: