Love And The Truth
Sunday morning, on the road proceeding west, I made my way to Starbucks. The sun blazes in the east across the Fox River. I felt atypically more alive, as if I were years younger… Pat Benatar’s Love Is A Battlefield was playing on the radio. Pat Benatar and Neil Gerardo remain one of the longest-lasting marriages in classic rock. I conclude her lyric is based upon personal experience. Life tests us over and over. With good fortune we learn the lesson. And maybe compose a hit song…
Gazing at the rising sun as if it were a god, I switched the tuning of the fuel injection to sport mode +. The light changed and within several seconds the speedometer needle arced past 60 mph. Enough! On occasion is it not good to feel god-like, to touch the wild, the serendipitous side of life?
What tune seems apt for this day? Is there a combination of rhythm, rhyme and harmony that will vivify us for the journey of today? This one strikes me as suited to capture our destiny: Bon Jovi’s Bed of Roses. Life is sacrifice. Everything must be paid for.
What would I die to defend?
