I’m choosing to do something a little different for this post – a step away from the story of Maddie and me for a moment, and a touch of music that doesn’t really fit into any specific part of our story.
For all of the story episodes, the music I have placed at the bottom directly relate to the mood, the feelings I have about the events in those episodes, or even almost exactly tell those stories – at least how they live in my mind.
Sometimes they are songs that were popular and current at the time the episode describes.
Sometimes the song came later, and sometimes a long time before. In these cases the song came along and coloured in the story for me.
Sometimes a song appears that doesn’t really fit anywhere at all, and are a more general representation of how I’ve felt about Maddie over the years.
I only recently discovered this song – even though it came out in 1990. A recent stream of thoughts about Maddie, about whether it is time to let her go bubbled up with this song. Over the space of about a week – (despite it being a 34 year old song) – I heard it about five times.
That felt like I was being told something, and despite all of the years of loving and caring for Maddie, there have been plenty of times I’ve wondered if I should just let her go.