Mandolin Rain

Old song...like so many seasons, music, people and places I've known in my life, the comings and goings continue.

Out on the scoots yesterday, I'd had a morning of reflection. Something was up...'guess it was the early morning freak out of checking my bank account only to discover I was in over-draft status...argh. NN EEE WAYZ, glorious morning aside, we'd stopped at this serene park along the Hudson river, where I wasn't feeling 'all there' with my motorcycling skills and, let James know I'd wanted to be home by 5pm or so to work on a paper due for one of my classes. Too much on my mind...and later on, there'd be more.

After staring at my laptop for a while, somehow, I tapped out some text and created a rough outline of where I wanted to go with my paper. While at the same time and, to further distract myself, I started making some gravy (errrr...pasta sauce for those who live outside the Northeast corridor and are unfamiliar with what the hell 'gravy' means) to toss on some pasta we'd have for dinner. Regardless, I just couldn't seem to get it together all day. Sitting in the livingroom with James - just talking about this and that - James asked if we could drag out some old videos of mine I had laying around for posterity, of the various bands and musicians I'd performed with, 'in the day'.

Eh...what the heck

'Course reading the dates on the tapes - 1990....1995 - jeezzzlawweeezz, and watching the person I was on the old videos was just plain weird. Only 16 and 11 years ago, respectively, my life is so different. Yikes! And what was up with that hair? Okay, I'm getting off track...my point: Although James was entertained - and apparently, impressed - (okay, he loves me...awwwww...what a sweetie, eh?) My curiosity was piqued: what has happened to the women I played with early on in one of my musical iterations, 16 years ago - a 'roots-y' group, performing feminist music of Central and South America, post metal band (yeah...I was in a metal band in the 80's...fodder for another story) how far removed is that? So, although I've kept in pretty decent contact with one of the women in our quartet (she's now 'up there' in the foreign service in South America), I wondered what had happened with the other two? I already know what's happened to me (moved to Seattle...moved to NYC...think I want to be a writer when I grow up rather than a musician...blah, blah, blah).

So, I decided to do a Google search on the other two women ...

Lourdes is now considered to be "among the great Latin American female vocalists" and highly acclaimed internationally for her "ability to transcend language...with her achingly beautiful contralto voice" or so her bio-quote goes. Having performed with everyone from Mercedes Sosa to the Indigo Girls.

Rossana found a niche in linguistics and started a translation service, translating from English to Spanish and visa versa. Creating and translating brochures, service manuals and other resources, representative of her bi-lingual abilities.

'Been a while since I've posted anything to this blog and I come up with this. Ehh...days like this; I feel like a loser.