Technology is awesome
This is going back a bit.
My sisters and my mother visited me back in November, and one of the nights we spent just talking about music and memories and such.
At one point my Mom started talking about her first husband’s (the father of all my siblings) favourite songs while they were dating. The fact that she remembered this one detail was astounding to me. Anyway, she went on to say it was “Hurt” by Timi Yuro. Again, I was a bit amazed but didn’t make a connection right away. That is, until my sister said “Go on limewire and see if you can download it.”
So I logged on and found it, but didn’t say anything until it was finished. Then I said “Ready?” and hit play. And for a milisecond, a brief moment in time, I could see my Mom brought back *instantly* in time. She closed her eyes and listened – none of us talked. It was obvious she hadn’t heard the song in years, and here it was instantly.
We went on to download and share a bunch of songs that meant important things to us. It was a rather magical evening.
“Hurt” just came up on iTunes. The first word of the song is so brilliant I can’t get over it.