December 31, 2008

Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

I've had the Simon & Garfunkel song Bookends going through my head this week.

Time it was
And what a time it was
It was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you

I think it was prompted by the hockey game on Sunday, when the Capitals retired Mike Gartner's number, and when my sister and I were walking around the concourse, we ran into one of the guys who worked at the Capital Centre back in those days.

And of course there was the four-generation family Christmas party. The next day, I was talking to my brother and his girlfriend, and she asked who'd end up hosting the giant party when my grandmother no longer could. "Nobody," my brother and I said almost simultaneously.

And it's New Year's Eve.

And I'm turning 40 on Sunday. There are some people who make sound like I should be bothered by turning 40...oooooh, getting old.

After last fall, I'm happy to be getting old.

But there's still a sense of...damn, time sure is flying by. And sometimes I didn't even get a picture.

It was late in December
The sky turned to snow
All round the day was going down slow
Night like a river beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind
Go drifting into time passages

That's Al Stewart. Enjoy the lite rock soundtrack of my life, and happy new year.

Posted by Nic at December 31, 2008 03:25 PM | TrackBack
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