Songs For Your Day

Tomorrow night I’m heading to Bloomington to see my friends in Canterbury Effect play their last show.

I’ve mentioned them before on here, if you remember, and this marks kind of a huge end of an era for me. We all grew up together in Brazil, IN, building a community there that is pretty much unparallelled in my life to date. I learned most of what I know about a fret board from Dustin and Alan.

One summer, Alan and I had the idea to build a model boat, and we did, and it was cheap and simple, and we didn’t care. We had built it, we had built it. It was like most everything else most of us had in our lives.

A few months later, Canterbury rolled out a new song at a show I was at, and by the end, I was a shaking fit.

We spent the last few months building this model of the most beautiful schooner I’ve ever seen. We both dreamed of gliding across the ocean the warning on the box said that it won’t be. So we set it to sail in the bathtub, manufactured it some waves. You can pretend that you’re the captain, and I’ll be your cast-iron first mate. We’ll sink it to see if it floats, it’s the only way we’ll ever know.

Tomorrow will be the first time I’ve seen Alan in years, and probably the last time I’ll see Alan in years, and all those years float.