Yesterday, while I was mulling over some ideas for today’s Y post, I was trying to think of what I might want to use for my last A to Z post. Tomorrow’s Z post is just as good as written because it’s a logical full circle connection to my A post which started the whole Adventure. So that just leaves the Y post. I scratched my head as I looked over the past month’s posts. What topic had I not touched upon? What had I missed? As I scrolled through blog posts, I asked Alexa to play some music for me and I went on browsing this blog for ideas.
Yesterday. As the lyrics played, I didn’t even have to think about them. They just came automatically, like a piece of me that I know so well. “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…”. That was it! Music. I had missed writing about music. What a huge hole my memories would be without music!
Yesterday, and yester-year, was filled with music. Music that harmonized with life’s every occurrence. Happy music, soulful music, discovery music, protest music, celebratory music. It was all there, like a soundtrack.
Yesterday my life was filled with rock ‘n roll, jazz, pop, Latin rock. It was filled with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Sonny and Cher, Carly Simon, Carol King, James Taylor, Santana. And there was Freddy Fender, Malo, Tower of Power, Chicago, Rod Stewart, Kenny Rogers, The First Edition, and so many more.
Yesterday was filled with Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Paper Back Writer, Twist n Shout, and Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da. It couldn’t go on without California Dreaming, Ventura Highway, or A Horse With No Name. Yesterday I went to the dance looking for romance and came across Peggy Sue, Oh Donna, and Barbara Ann.
Yesterday. So many memories; so much richness. Yesterday’s music will live on and today’s will become someone else’s “yesterday music”. Music will always be with us; a part of us; inside of us; from us. At least that’s the way it is with me
Yesterday.
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 
And we always think our eras music is the best.
Recently I have been looking up older movies I loved to share with my kids. We watched Kramer v Kramer and they loved it.
Hope you are on the mend.x
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That’s a good movie to have them watch. It has a gripping story and actors which they’ve probably become familiar with over the years. I’m doing so so. If I keep in mind that I need to take it easy and stay quiet, enjoy some reading, then I’m a lot better than if I try to do things that I shouldn’t be doing! On the mend, though.
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Though I always try to forge ahead, yesterday’s music does help make up my soundtrack. A Simon and Garfunkel tune just stopped playing and a Peter Gabriel era Genesis song just began. And, of course, not a day goes by that the Beatles don’t make some type of appearance (You’ve seen my mug collection, haven’t you? 😉 )
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I think yesterday’s music becomes so much a part of us that today doesn’t happen without a part of yesterday! And the Beatles make appearances in the daily lives of so many of us around our age…actually they transcend age!
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Just when I think music isn’t a big part of my life, I hear a song that immediately connects me back to a time, place, or person. Yesterday indeed!
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