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Today Is Another YearJanuary 01, 2008 My first opportunity to type "2008" and I didn't blow it. Good sign. James Keelaghan's My Skies is playing on the boombox, because a character in Squatters -- Celia the singer-drummer -- seems to be making a CD called Orion. She insists it's not all about breakup songs, it's about moving-on songs. She hasn't told me what's on it yet, but I'm pushing for Keelaghan's "Orion," which is on My Skies. (It's also on Then Again; I'll listen to that later.) So I came in from giving Rhodry his breakfast (with a Happy New Year dose of therapeutic liver) while the last track on My Skies was playing. Perfect benediction for a new year, I thought. Here's part of it, sans music. Imagine it being sung to you in the quiet corner of a coffeehouse by someone who's sympathetic but quite capable of kicking your butt if you slide too far down into the pity pot.
If you're doing the math and thinking that at your age the assurance of "ten thousand more" seems glib and very possibly more than you really want -- well, listen to the other songs on the album. "River Run" is about a river that no longer runs like it used to because "there's a dam there restricting the flow," sung by a narrator who doesn't run like he used to either. "Kiri's Piano" is about a woman of Japanese descent whose husband has already been interned in the wake of Pearl Harbor, whose music comes slower and more seldom as she waits her turn. In "Abraham" the singer dreams a conversation with the farmer whose name lives in the Field of Abraham, where even the lives of generals were cut short. And in "Glory Bound" a high school hockey star dies in a car crash on his way to the big game. So don't get too hung up on "ten thousand." What we've got is today and, if we're lucky, tomorrow.
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