ten cent wings.

i spent last evening with my three closest girl friends. a long-overdue catch up session and plenty of laughter; just what i needed.

and was reminded of just how amazing it is that the four of us, friends here in nashville, are all transplants from houston who came here for different reasons: a new job, a change of seasons, a musical husband, an education. diverse as we are, we are so much the same. our lives have intersected for at least a decade, and these evenings out together are becoming few and far between the more our lives evolve, so i treasure them all the more.

being that jeremy was away in greenville for a concert at portland studios, this left me without a babysitter. christie's husband todd, brave soul that he is, agreed to keep eli along with their own two-year-old, for the night.

i left home at 5:20 wearing a turkey-&-rice-scented necklace that eli had insisted on putting in his mouth during dinner. he refused to eat another bite of baby food until i let him inspect the turquoise bead dangling from my neck and i was in too much of a rush to argue against his persistence. so off we went...

after a grown-up dinner in hillsboro village, the girls and i walked a few wonderfully chilly blocks to one of my favorite music venues in town, the belcourt theater, for a Jonatha Brooke concert. so nostalgic and fun. a little disappointed not to hear "West Point," but she filled her set with plenty of amazing old songs and a few great new ones, including a french song that i loved.

post-concert coffee at Fido: we dragged out our glorious hours of freedom as long as we could, then headed back to relieve todd from baby-duty and found him bleary-eyed on the couch, curled up with the dog.

this morning i am baking up a pan of "healthy" banana bread made with honey to greet my road-weary husband when he arrives home in an hour. and i am listening to jonatha sing a cover of simon & garfunkel's "bleecker street." her voice haunts me with thoughts of another town and i dwell on one of my all-time favorite lyrics:

"i saw a shadow touch a shadow's hand..."

simple, but i love the image & miss my husband and the reach of his hand that comes whenever we're walking anywhere together.

here's another favorite, absent last night, but it's good even just to read. some songs are like that...

If I knew what I was after, I'd remember where I'd been
If I was sure of something better, I'd go, I'd go
But I am just another picture, and I watch myself like you
I imagine what you're thinking,
I know, I know

Ten cent wings, I'll take two
Pin them to my sweater and I'll sail above the blue
Ten cent wings tried and true
Orbiting like satellites I'll sail away with you

I will love across the borders, I will wait until it's dark
I will fly and you'll be with me, my wings, your heart
Then our memory may fail us, and our language will go too
But the shooting stars will catch our
Celestial view

Ten cent wings, I'll take two
Pin them to my sweater and I'll sail above the blue
Ten cent wings, tried and true
Orbiting like satellites I'll sail away with you

But I'll never tell, I'll never say, I'll never be that brave

Ten cent wings, I'll take two
Pin them to my sweater and I'll sail above the blue
Ten cent wings tried and true
In another life you are with me, and I'm with you
Ten cent wings, I'll take two
Pin them to my sweater and I'll sail above the blue
Ten cent wings, tried and true
In another life you are with me and I'm with you