Glory Days

Toe,
Congratulations on the new home--it looks awesome. I loved your story about the previous owners. That kind of personal history makes the place really unique, and I think you put it well in that you feel like you will be caretakers to the home. I wish you well as you start out in the new place, and I hope it is one day bursting at the seams with your kids.

I, too, sometimes think I am recreating some version of my childhood home, in some sense. We never lived in a house as nice as ours, I don't think--our home never had as much character--but I feel that my attitude toward it is very much as if I am recreating something I grew up in. I want it filled with food, with a garden in the back, and I have both these things now. I wanted a neighborhood where I could say hello to people, and befriend them. We have that now. I wanted a place that I could invite people into, that I could walk out of and putter about the yard cutting grass. All these simple pleasures my life is so full of these days, it seems I recall something like them from my childhood, something that I experienced or witnessed my parents experiencing.

Weird the way these dreams and aspirations get passed down.

Speaking of aspirations, I too want to see Bruce in concert. I've loved him for a long time (I actually bought "Nebraska" the week it was released, whenever the hell that was, in the early 80s), but it's been a fandom I've held at arms length because I always felt he was kind of uncool, so I've never seen him live. So silly, because they guy is an amazing songwriter and performer. We should go see him together.

A great Springsteen album: "The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle." Dude stuffs an entire albums worth of lyrics into every single song.

Love,
E-word