Tunes for time and why I am really into the 70's

There is no experience that makes me feel more present than listening to music from the past.

Songs I grew up with are often attached to a memory. It is a shame, but some wonderful songs have been soiled for me by terrible memories, and vice versa. They may be modern songs, but they trap me in the past. Listening to these songs, I do not feel the music, but rather the memory.

But really old music is filled with someone else's memories. They are just wonderful songs to me. They do not take me back to the year they were released because when they first became I had not yet. Songs from before me give me the opportunity to be moved by the music, nothing else.

So as much as my mother and father and aunts and uncles may feel when they hear Neil Young and the Grateful Dead and Jackson Browne, all I feel is a wonderful song. And on days like these, that is all I want to feel.