Most of the time, after work is done, there is not much different activity left. Music has been a constant and will remain so. Today, as the weather is pretty awful, rain, chilly, dreary, after grading the weekly work, I headed up to the treadmill (aka the “dreadmill”), about a year or so ago, I was looking to get rid of it since I was getting so much activity in outside: running, dog walking, golf, golf and more golf, no one seemed to want it even free so I still have it. Fast forward to now, and I don’t know what I’d do without it. It allows me to get work in every day regardless of the weather and maybe sometimes even in addition to getting out, beats the crap out of sitting in the recliner and reading my iPad! So, music….while on the dreadmill, I find it freeing to listen to music, it helps with running pace and simply distracting me from running to nowhere. I also try to go back and listen to things I’ve not listened to in a while, thus, today, I decided to revisit a 1994 album from Nanci Griffith: Flyer. I loved it when I first came upon it, but it has fallen off the radar recently. Listening to it I was reminded why I loved it. She paints beautiful pictures with her words, her voice is wonderful and the music also terrific. A few songs in began a song that could have been written about today, yet it is over 26 years old the title: A Time of Inconvenience some of the lyrics are as follows:
“I’m living in his time of inconvenience, At an inconvenient time
Where the only voices heard have money in their hands
Where greed has become a sophistication
And if you ain’t got money
As my history fades
While the clock ticks away
Any progress we’ve made
Dumped out in these mean streets
The evil sweeps them up
And brings them to their knees
They’re living in the age of communication
This is the time of greed and power
This is the time that I wish was not mine
Cause’ it’s an inconvenient time”