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Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Fleeting

Driving west, finally, toward the sunset. Chicago to Des Moines. It’s been a great tour. Feels kind of long on one hand… 21 days on the road. But after a while, you sort of hit a rhythm and let go of a lot of stuff… and it doesn’t seem that long at all. Like you could keep going for a long, long time – and like it. That’s where I am right now as I write… in the farthest back seat of the van, a little more than halfway between Chicago and Des Moines, driving into a dusky sunset toward our last show of the tour.

Ray Charles is on the stereo. I was just listening to Daniel Lanois. Those two should have done a record together… never gonna happen. Which reminds me of something that touring has brought into even tighter focus: music is a precious, precious thing. It takes so many accidents or happenstances for something beautiful or worthwhile to happen in music. On so many levels, too. A song, a band, a tour, a sound, a record… If we’re lucky enough to experience something that’s true and real and good, we must love it deeply. Because it is fleeting.

Funny how we keep re-learning the same lessons over and over. Mine, tonight, right now: gratitude for where you are, what you’re doing, and who you’re with.

Love,
John

Posted By John Common at: 4:11 pm

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