A Music Prompt - Five Years by David Bowie - (originally written January 12, 2019)
As the music fades - i am not familiar with the song - and it brings up so many questions, should I know it? When was it written? did it have a heyday? but as I was listening, my first thought was - I can hear the violin - I can hear the piano - I can hear the drumbeat, the beat, the time of the drum - those bits were so mesmerizing that I failed to hear the song lyrics - until I heard the words repeated 5 years - 5 years - 5 years...ah, to focus on the memories of the instruments or to focus on the lyrics of 5 years...so difficult to say which thing evokes more in terms of writing. So interesting - many times in a job interview someone will ask - where do you see yourself in 5 years? How to respond? Do you say, I hope to have your job? Do you say, I am living in the now, and in five years I will still be living in the now? Is there an answer that is best and will get you a job? For my move to Olympia - I said with a smile - I hope to be the state archivist or th...