Song of the Day: Box of Rain
Back in the late 80s and early 90s I was in school in Florida, and Amacker started inviting me out to California for summer and eventually New Year visits. Every time I'd come out she'd take me to a Jerry Garcia or a Grateful Dead show. I fell in love with the area, the culture, the music, and pretty soon I was driving from Florida to California several times a year. In the summer of 1993 I just never went back to Florida. I've lived in Northern California ever since and always no more than a few miles from Amacker.
This is a song about care. It's not always clear what we can do to help someone who is under the care of talented physicians. Sometimes we wait. Sometimes we help fight the boredom while the body does what it does. Sometimes we advocate. Always we love.
The Grateful Dead performing "Box of Rain"
This is a song about care. It's not always clear what we can do to help someone who is under the care of talented physicians. Sometimes we wait. Sometimes we help fight the boredom while the body does what it does. Sometimes we advocate. Always we love.
The Grateful Dead performing "Box of Rain"
3 Comments:
beautiful choice today for a song!
Richard, I've never had the fortune to meet Amacker (I must have missed her at the last party I went to at your house) but thanks to your words on this blog, I feel like I'm really getting to know her. Thanks so much for communicating like this. Much love to you and the rest of your family.
Just a funny Amacker story -- hwne my 2nd marriage broke up, Amacker decided that she was going to help me find a new mate. I live way up in Sonoma County and can't drive because of low vision, but she bought tickets, came and got me and took me to a Grateful Dead concert at Shoreline. Why? "Well," she said, "there are a lot of cool-looking grey-haired men with beards about your age at Dead concerts. Maybe you'll meet the right one there." I didn't hook up with anyone that night, but had a great time anyway. Later, when i met and married my third husband, Amacker's first question to him was, "What kind of music do you like?" He said, "Syd Barrett," and she put together an amazing set of rare Barrett-related tracks for him. I love that about her -- she knows that the way to a man's heart is through his ears. :-)
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