I’m going to keep my mouth shut today (edit)
that didn't last long....
I wasn’t planning on writing this morning until the drive to work.
As I pulled away from Riverside, Saturn greeted me from the east sky, hanging low and stubborn like an old friend who won’t quit on you. The early morning glow had just started to stretch across Lake Michigan’s horizon, promising another July day whether I was ready for it or not.
Halfway into the drive, the radio offered a familiar voice with some age old advice. Sir Michael Philip Jagger, knighted rocker and occasional philosopher, reminded me:
“You can’t always get what you want...
But if you try sometimes, well—you just might find...
You get what you need.”
That line has found me in different seasons of my life:
Boyhood.
Bachelorhood.
Fatherhood.
Divorcehood.
from trading pits and now screen pits.
from CTA platforms to parking garages.
from breakfast cereal and cartoons to martinis and hard bop.
from Edgewater to Riverside.
from being lonely to being alone
And mornings like this one, when I wasn’t looking for answers, but got one anyway.
Sometimes you don’t need a map or a Google search....
Just a lyric.
A planet.
A sunrise
And a familiar stretch of road that keeps showing up.
