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04 July ~ 2007
Late in the evening on July 3rd, as it was getting dark, I had one of the best four tables in any bookstore in town. I was in the coffeeshop on the second floor of the Barnes and Nobles in Downtown Denver, sitting in one of the tables that look over Tremont, just around the corner from 16th. From there you can read and write, and look down to watch people walking on the city street below, look up to see the evening light change on the huge skyscrapers, and the lights in some of the windows come on.I was half killing time, til around 9pm, when I would go over to the Tuesday Lindy Dance at the Mercury. I have heard it said it is the best Lindy night in the country. This is my second year of Lindy lessons, third year of swing lessons from Dan and Tiff at the Mercury, and the hard work I have put in is starting to pay off. It hardly seems right that people can have that much fun on a Tuesday night.
This one was going to be ever better, because tomorrow was the fourth of July, and none of us had to work.
While I was reading a book called Storycatcher by Christina Baldwin, about making sense of our lives from the power and practice of story, Van Morrison's version of Gloria came on the speakers in the Coffee Shop. I stopped reading and realized I could do a Lindy Swing or a Triple Step to that beat. That got me up and moving. I needed to stop reading about it, and live some of my story.
Listen to Gloria Here (enter userid of 'music' and password of 'music')
(Gloria was released by Van Morrison, in the band 'Them' from England, and then covered the next year in the United States by a Chicago band called Shadows of the Night. Hear their version here. (enter userid of 'music' and password of 'music').
The Shadows of the Knight version received more radio play across the country, because they replaced the lyrics 'and she comes to my room,' with 'and she calls out my name.'
It is a great song.