It is a Wednesday morning.  Sunlight floods into the window at Starbucks.  Warmth, light, life– gifts of nature, no charge.  The coffee on the other hand costs, but the deal is quite fair for a large cup of pure comfort.

Do I write about a jetliner that went down?  It plunged into the sea with all hands lost.  The software program written to keep the passengers safe, written to mitigate the amount of pilot training, notice the contradiction, had unintended consequences.  “And so it goes,” as Kurt Vonnegut would have said.

Maybe I could write about the turmoil in the White House, the imminent firings of staff…  Why dedicate precious mental energy to this tabloid-like scrum?

I’ll write about the human condition, which always interests me.  I am human and have a stake in treating the human condition.  And I love music. I am a fan of the manner of therapy offered by tune and lyric.

I heard this song by Journey played on the radio yesterday.  It is a love song.  It tells of a relationship that is untenable, that cannot be sustained.  Relationships can be like that as the two histories brought to the table, do not overlap enough for bridges to be built.  The discovery of a journey together into a shared future fails.  But the love, the unconditional affection remains.  This is that kind of song.

Each person is a multilayered residue of all that has happened, all of the pain and all of the joy.  A little is remembered. Most is forgotten. Nothing is lost and all remains.  There are ghosts, many selves within each side of a relationship.

I’ve said too much.  Just enjoy the song.

Don’t you love the keyboard runs of the arena-rock!?

Separate Ways by Journey

Here we stand
Worlds apart
Hearts broken in two, two, two
Sleepless nights
Losing ground
I’m reaching for you, you, you

Feelin’ that it’s gone
Can’t change your mind
If we can’t go on
To survive the tide
Love divides

Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched
And went our separate ways

If he ever hurts you
True love won’t desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched
And went our separate ways

Troubled times
Caught between confusion and pain, pain, pain
Distant eyes
Promises we made were in vain, in vain, in vain

If you must go
I wish you love
You’ll never walk alone
Take care, my love
Miss you, love

Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched
And went our separate ways

If he ever hurts you
True love won’t desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched
And went our separate ways

No

Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you

If he ever hurts you
True love won’t desert you
You know I still love you

I still love you, girl
I really love you, girl

And if he ever hurts you
True love won’t desert you
No, no