seniors aging gracefully

I love Pink Floyd, on my list of top 10 musical groups of all time

I think of this album as their best, maybe because I fell in love to this song while dancing on a kibbutz on Israel. It was 1973, I was fresh out of college and not ready to move on with my career, so I decided to move to Israel and study Hebrew. He was 21, a French Israeli who had just seen combat in the Yom Kippur War. I picked him out shortly after arriving on the kibbutz. He was damn good looking and had an intensity about him that I could not ignore. We fell in love; he did not speak English so I had to rely on my limited high school French, but hey I did read Victor Hugo in French and was able to write essays in that language. Soon I was even dreaming in French, but, as I tell others, there were gaps in that relationship. Still our connection was beyond language. His mother had been in a concentration camp and I had an acute appreciation of the horrors Jews had experienced from the nazis. In the end, I left Danny and returned to the States to pursue my Ph.D

But back to Pink Floyd. If you are not familiar with their early music check out See Emily Play. It was released when Syd Barrett was the songwriter. As you may know, he soon went off the deep end, he had a severe mental illness. His influence on this group continued even though he never played with them again. Rodger Walters went on to write many songs exploring mental illness, hence The Dark Side of the Moon and Shine on you Crazy Diamond