I do the same with music. Some reminds me of happy times and some reminds me of not so happy times. Bottom line -- it's all part of the girl/woman I once was.
Kay Dennison | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 10:27 pm | #

That song always reminded me of Mom. But I had this thought this week.
Our mother loved us so fiercely that she kept us with her. She devoted her life to us that outshines anything I could ever have done.
Can you imagine that, FIVE of us?
We are daughters of a woman who loved us with every once of her ability and who mined her inner self to her core.
Tara | 10.29.09 - 2:09 am | #

Kay- "Bottom line -- it's all part of the girl/woman I once was."

Me, too.

Tara-That our mother loved us and did the best she could is a given, pleased to know that you feel way this, too.
la peregrina | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 8:50 am | #

Music can trigger memories that you thought were long buried. There is a Cole Porter song that makes me feel like crying for a love lost 65 years ago. Weird as that may seem, the song and the feeling it invoked then are tied together like a ribbon around a package.
Darlene | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 6:22 pm | #

That part of the song always reminds me of mom too.

I think that her focusing on "the bleeding crowd" was the shiny-thing that KEPT her from focusing on us because she just couldn't handle what was going on.

I think she was aware that she wasn't providing for us the way she should and we needed but she just didn't know HOW to do it better. Instead of facing that, she kept her eye on the shiny-thing that wasn't her fault. No guilt attached if it failed.

And yes, she loved us. No doubt. Its just too bad we didn't come with a manual to help her with the other parts of parenting.
Maura | 11.19.09 - 2:22 pm | #