somewhere there's a river...in ohio?

now playing: jimmie spheeris, "i am the mercury"

a long lost friend of mine turned me on to jimmie spheeris...i still have the cassette he gave to me that had jimmie on one side and david wilcox's "home again" on the other side. it's practically unlistenable now, but it makes for great reminiscing music - which is definitely a shot in the arm as i descend into the depths of self inflicted nanowrimo hell...i wish i'd been aware of jimmie before he died. but he's been gone nearly twenty years now.

i have to think he must've been a beautiful soul. i would love to go to the place where this music comes from.

i think that jimmies' spirit might find its way into this book of mine, somehow.

it's closing in on midnight, and i know already i'm going to have one of those weeks this week. i'm hoping i'm wrong. i'd love to be wrong. hopefully, i'll be able to tell you in a week that i was wrong.

now, though, i think i'm going to turn in and try to rest up. it hasn't been a particularly stressful weekend, save for a couple of moments of brief domestic tension...i only sent my son up to bed less than an hour ago - junior procrastinator that he is, i allowed him to take advantage of the absolutely beautiful weather we had this weekend and didn't force him to work on his report on the state of Ohio until after dark...but he came through in the end.

now i lay me down to sleep....


Through the trees, trails of gold come filtering down
The sunken leaves, such a simple crown
Let the river roll
Send me laughing, tumbling down

Somewhere there's a river, running slow
Shaded in the trees of spring
On it, I'm gonna float and roll
Vanishing into the dream

jimmie spheeris, "somewhere there's a river"