More Musical Divination

I find it a little wink from the universe when you flip on the radio and the song playing is your favorite song, or one that seems oddly appropriate. This summer at Goldmine, each time I left to run errands somewhere, the song "Waving Flag" would be on the radio. After Goldmine, I've flipped the radio on to hear, "I'm Yours" far more frequently than one would really think probable - and as a stats person, I use that word deliberately.

After this weekend, Monday a.m., driving off to work, the song playing snuck up on me a little bit; I wasn't paying that much attention, but then I realized it was a song I was quite surprised to hear on the radio: "A Sort of Homecoming", by U2. Back in high school, in winter, driving to basketball games, I'd make this the last song I'd listen to before getting out of the car to go in.

And you know its time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance

And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape

Oh, oh, oh
On borderland we run
Ill be there
Ill be there
Tonight

Every time I do a youth event, I start to feel burned out, challenged, blech, why am I doing this? How much longer will I do this? Should I start planning to turn this over? And then I go through the event and I feel so uplifted, so impressed, so in love with this community that I sigh and can't imagine why I'd ever want to leave. This past con was that way, only about 10 times more so than normal.

Tonight we'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight

And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance

Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home

It is a wonderful community, and I'm lucky to be part of it.