Perfect Moment Monday: Graceland

First, for your listening pleasure:

This week, Between the Lines had a wonderful post about Paul Simon’s brilliant song Graceland. I listened to the album hundreds of times in 6th grade, my musical formative years. Like a baby gosling, I imprinted onto the album, particularly the title song.

Graceland warms my soul, but it has been years — decades? — since I really thought hard about the lyrics. Thanks to Between the Lines, I considered them carefully once again. So much has happened, and the meaning of many lyrics has changed for me. In particular:

She says losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow

This is very true if you’re talking about a breakup, and it’s true of many kinds of loss. It’s not, however, true of the babies I’ve lost. Blown apart, yes, but almost no one has been allowed to see anything — no knowledge of what has happened, and usually no clue that anything has gone wrong. The curtains of the window in my heart have been closed for years.

And then I realized that the window is now open, at least to the blogosphere. You all have a clear view to both the bad and the good.

If you tap on the window, I might even invite you in for cocoa.

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Spoiler alert: One of the moments is about me!