"Coming Back Like a Song," Part 5

       Whether by verbal, visual, or rhythmic association, all of these times that I caught the moment which engendered the song were relaxed occasions:  getting ready for tennis, eyeing food in the grocery, on a pleasure trip, taking a hike, at home while opening the refrigerator door or after running, or at ease with my wife.

       And I’m retired.  It helps to be relatively carefree for those good old songs to find their way back and come welling up into voice.  But when they do, it's also good to remember that we owe it to the great songsters:  composers, singers, lyricists, the ones who created the songs of our lives!