friday night find

It has been a long week. I am happy to report that I had a successful surgery Monday. I took off two days from work, and worked tired these last three days. The results are in and all is benign, so there is that.

In other news of the curious and amazing... my child, seemingly just yesterday toddling around, passed his driver license test on the first try on Wednesday. I am both happy and terrified. We of course wanted him to pass for his own self-confidence, but part of me thought it might be okay to have to give it more than one try... As it turned out, in some bizarre combination of factors, he lost points for both going too slowly in one snowy patch of roads, to losing points for palming the wheel on a turn like Joe Cool. (Heyyy, Ms. Instructor, you come here often? [palms-wheel-on-turn-casually.] Despite losing points on those two things... he earned enough points to pass. And, wow, is it expensive to add a teenage driver with a junior license to the family auto insurance!

If getting his license wasn't enough to jolt me into a new reality, we just signed him up for the ACT exam next month, and I will have to begin to accept the reality that he will be heading off to college in another year and a half. Time flies.

The Friday Night Find here at WJPP is a song off Steven Wilson's new album, Hand.Cannot.Erase, called Perfect Life.  I heard an interview of Steven talking about this song, and what it comes down to is a sense of nostalgia in remembering those perfect, fleeting, times in our lives. Steven talks about this song as a sort of "looking back at childhood and realizing that there was this incredibly perfect moment... but looking back at that perfect moment with all the kind of melancholy that that implies,  of knowing that you will never be able to capture that feeling again  and capture that moment again. And I think that's implicit with nostalgia.. nostalgia always has a kind of melancholia, and sense of loss - almost attached to it by definition,  because you are looking back at something you know you can never really feel that way again - so perfect life has that kind of sense of happiness but also sense of melancholia...." So, enjoy. The filming and light in this video have a surreal feel. Thought-and-emotion provoking stuff. Have a very nice weekend.