A playlist that runs through my life
When Genevieve McVann tagged me for this challenge, I wasn’t sure where to start. So many songs have associated memories for me. Life has been a little jumbled for me this week, making it harder to write well, but I was finally able to put some thoughts together.
1. Southern Cross, Crosby Stills and Nash (1982)
Song written by Stephen Stills, Rick Curtis, and Michael Curtis
I love the imagery and the music in this song on its own, but I will always associate it with night flying. There is a part in the song that reads:
“We got eighty feet of the waterline nicely making way, In a noisy bar in Avalon I tried to call you, But on a midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away”
I was a pilot for many years and flew across the ocean often, usually at night. It seems like on every transatlantic flight there is a moment in the middle of the night when the cockpit is silent, and most people in the back are asleep, and you are looking out the window over the dark ocean and the beautiful, bright stars. At times like that, I imagined myself on a ship on a midnight watch. And I hummed that song.
