One Christmas, Margie and Paul gave Jim this book. It has been on his nightstand all these years, and I finally decided I should read it. It’s basically Willie telling stories and sharing his philosophies on life, along with corny jokes and song lyrics sprinkled throughout .
The inside cover has a drawing he made of himself with autograph .
So I was reading along one day and was stopped in my tracks by some song lyrics I was not familiar with at all. The song is called “Always Now” and was on an album he released in 2008. The lyrics seared right through me.
Check this out.
As someone who is grieving a loved one who is “gone,” and thinking a lot about “past memories,” Willie’s song opened me up to the knowledge that it is all present to me now. It seems to match the experience I’ve been having lately. For a while I felt Jim intensely present, and then not. But then I settled into a place where our whole life together feels like now. And not in some “Helen is psycho” way, but in a natural way of understanding what is.
I’m sure I’m not explaining it very well. That’s what song lyrics are for. Give a listen to this lovely Willie song.
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