The Beloved State

Though the image will indeed look familiar to readers, the experience that the above image suggests will be entirely different. Indeed, I will be playing a show in California next weekend, and California this time of year, is quite different from Washington DC. While I am of course excited to see my family, some friends, play some music, and eat copious amounts of Mexican food; at this juncture of winter I am looking forward to being warm out of doors. Relatively speaking. I read The Sheltering Sky, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Power and the Glory in the last weeks, in the hopes of some feeble escape. Which worked in a way.

So today is my son's first birthday, and we are awash in memory. He was still not yet born a year ago, though close. It is hard to quantify or even begin to explain with words the magnitude of this experience; what it has done to my heart. What else can I say? Alas, I cannot help the below.....

Posted by jeff pitcher at February 15, 2009 01:01 PM

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