Today’s Theme Music

Blasted through another night of dreams. I traveled the world, saw confusion and met it with more confusion. A little clarity came with reflection after I was awake for a while.

Sometimes, you know, you wonder how people get away with what they do. You wonder, where the hell is the justice? What trick of fate lead some through lives of dissatisfaction and loss as others thrive no matter who and what they destroy in the process? We wish for instant karma or some kind of reckoning. We want to know what happens to them. Why do you follow all the rules only to end up bitter and sad as others break the rules and end up wealthy and happy?

I wonder but there aren’t answers. What’s the point of wondering, right? Sure, the unexamined life is much easier to live.

Let’s just rock the days away. Here’s ‘Best of You’ with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters, from 2005. It was a song I heard quite a bit that year. Back then, my team was still in the SF Bay area. They were working from home from Santa Rosa, Walnut Creek, San Mateo, Pacifica, San Jose…all over. Once a month, I’d drive down from Ashland in Oregon and meet with them for planning and team building. We’d have lunch, discuss trends and problems, and just chat. The drive wasn’t difficult until I edged into the Bay area traffic around Fairfield. After that, it was hellacious.

Today’s Theme Music

Today’s song is another one of those heard while racing around the SF Bay area on the work-shop-errands-eat-sleep-repeat treadmill. Interested in words and unfamiliar with the artist, I kept listening for it and searching for information about her. Of course, this was around 2005. Google and other search engines were strong. They were less about shopping and marketing and more about getting information back then.

I’d already learned the singer-songwriter was Scottish and that this was her debut. Eventually, I found more about the lyrics and then discovered her comments about them.

She said, “’Black Horse’ is inspired by old blues, Nashville psycho hillbillies & hazy memories,” says KT. “It tells the story of finding yourself lost on your path, and a choice has to be made. It’s about gambling, fate, listening to your heart, and having the strength to fight the darkness that’s always willing to carry you off.”

Ah. I get that from the song. Hope you do, too. Here is KT Tunstall with ‘Black Horse & the Cherry Tree’. 

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