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#109 – Waiting For The Next Explosion

The world has felt edgy and uncomfortable for a while. I do not for a moment believe I am the only person feeling it, although my life has had some serious challenges recently. Certainly, in the last several months, and maybe even further back to the pandemic, although we might not have been aware of exactly what we were feeling leading up to that time… but something was coming, something was going to change things, and it was going to feel unsettling.

“Waiting for the next explosion” feels like that’s what our world has been feeling for the last several months, so the RadioMargaritaville Wheel of Fortune spun this song out to me last night, I nodded my head and said “yes, indeed” to the Universe. Perfect song at the perfect time, and I gave some words of thanks into the heavens to Jimmy Buffett for always having the right song for the right moment, as well as a nod to his foresight in writing and recording this song, which is twenty-five years old, but still feels just right to describe the way the world feels right now.

Day #37 – Beach House On The Moon

I love that this song talks about curiosity, but also hints about the never-ending questions we all have in life, child or adult. “Teach your children to go fishing with their minds” is something I touched on in my original post, but I want to investigate the concept more. Jimmy himself strikes me as a person who was incredibly curious, and I imagine he was a child full of questions. And maybe there were never enough answers for him? And in that way, I think he went searching for his own answers, and he found them in his songs, his experiences, his travels, and his friendships.