Adults loved it because it was all inside the circumstance of the sentence of their youth - of history - as narrated by Kevin as an adult looking back.Flashforward to now. The days are fantastic in rather a different way. Example: my mom is on facebook. She's having a mythical and surreal time catching up with old friends and exchanging memories and stories and photos. She posts photos, she's online friends with my real friends, and she writes on people's walls. When she sent me photos from her wonder years.summer camp 1976/77 (mom was 17).I was directly inspired to send about it.The trunks were short, the bras were nowhere to be found, the denim was tattered, the hair was big. Free love, happy drugs, holding hands, and the top 100 hits on Billboard included "50 Ways to Give your Lover" by Paul Simon, "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross, "You Should be Dancing" by the Bee Gees, "Know to Love you Baby" by Donna Summer, and "That's the Way I Wish it" by KC & the Sunshine Band, among Many others. Sure there was still drama, sure people still had problems, but looking at that bubblegum photo (3rd one).doesn't it only take life seem great?!Let's play this game now - this is a picture of me with my girls right before I graduated high school in 2002 (so we were near the like age as my mom) - I'm on the far left:
Comparable? Not quite! There's something around the photos from the 70's that merely feel more serene. And more.rebellious? Am I imagining this?? Is it as bare as dark and white vs. sepia? Or is there something else going on? Would know to get everybody's take on it.Anyway, that's enough nostalgia for today. I've had Joe Cocker stuck in my mind for the final 2 years so hopefully now that I've posted this it'll go away.'prece.
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