Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Carlos...

This is just about the perfect song for a semi-gray May Day.  "Samba Pa Ti" and I go waaay back, from the time Abraxas was first released back in 1970 up until the present.  I've experienced many, many exquisite moments with this tune, beginning when The First Mrs. Pennington and I did numerous turns to this song on dance floors many and varied (including our living room), up until recently when relatively new women and I did the same.  And oh-so-many points in between.  I can't begin to enumerate the emotions this song invokes... but they always involve passion, heartbreak and longing.  

Today it's longing... specifically in the sense that SN1 wrapped up his family's temporary life here on The High Plains of New Mexico yesterday and hit the road for South Carolina.  He's somewhere on I-40 as we speak... behind the wheel of a 26-foot U-Haul truck with a trailered Jeep behind... motoring on towards the next installment of his Air Force life.  There are times when I envy those few of us who have roots... maintaining a hold on the nuclear family while enjoying the proximity of same... which would also include friends, of course.  "Samba Pa Ti" brings out those feelings in me and I suppose this is something on the order of a "ya hadda be there" kind of moment.

Still and even I think most of us can relate, whether it's thinking of lost loves, moments lost and found, or the simple joy of living in the present.  This is a great tune for doing all of the above.  

Thanks, Pandora.