"Boy From Tupelo" Emmylou Harris. One of my favorite songs ever.
Last night, driving home from work I was involved in an annoyingly minor car accident. Is it a law in Kentucky that all accidents, no matter how minor, must be reported to the police? The guy I rear-ended immediately called 911 even though all I did was bump his bumper (ok, I left a considerable 1.5" dent in the thing). So what could have been a 5 minute swapping of insurance information and phone numbers turned into an hour long ordeal at 11pm, after a long day. I was literally falling asleep in my car as I waited for the police officer to file the report and check our licences and registrations. Luckily he was laid back and friendly, but unfortunately my insurance card was expired and I got a ticket, turning a potentially one hour long situation into a multiple day long ass pain that will require me to go to the station and give them my proof of insurance letter that I have to get to negate the ticket I got for not having any. All this because some asshole was driving at 10:15pm with his headlights off.
No one was hurt, except my car's interior, which suffered from an exploding bottle of flying kombucha and an opened container of garlic green beans. The smell is... formidable.
So I've got that going for me.
My current playlist -
Neil Young, Harvest Moon
Van Morrison, Crazy Love
Emmylou Harris, Boy from Tupelo
Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris, Blackhawk
Neil Young, Heart of Gold
Ben Harper, With My Own Two Hands
Joe Cocker, Feelin' Alright
Emmylou Harris, Waltz Across Texas Tonight
Neil Young, Old Man
Ben Harper, Diamonds on the Inside
Warren Zevon, Keep Me in Your Heart
Neil Young, Unknown Legend
Emmylous Harris, Pancho and Lefty
King Harvest, Dancing in the Moonlight
Van Morrison, Into the Mystic
Patty Griffin, Little Fire
This is constantly evolving, I might have to add more Patty Griffin, some Elton John, or even Lucinda Williams. The sunshine does magical things to my music.
As I rise from my recent funk of being sick, missing school, being in a car accident, and the winter, I wonder what directions my winds will take me in. I feel that change is coming. With Hawaii, then school finishing for the semester, then Morocco and summer, I feel that by August I will hardly recognize myself. It is time for me to secure my foundation and brace myself for the onslaught.
With reading huge quantities of Willa Cather for school, listening to Emmylou Harris and Neil Young, and craving open spaces and sunshine I have found myself craving a road trip across the midwest again. The open road, the sun beating down, just me and the radio, the fields, plains, winds, bridges, and constantly shifting landscape, I miss it and crave it.
(What is it about 'Heart of Gold' that is so fabulous?)
That's enough for a Saturday morning.
About Me
- Ann Marie
- I would be remiss if I didn't extend my gratitude to the Fulbright program for this jaw-dropping opportunity, as well as to the Honors Department at the University of Louisville, for its hard work in ensuring my selection as an English Teaching Assistant to Oman for the 2012-2013 year. My brief bio - Born and raised in Amboy, WA, I attended Clark College in Vancouver, before going on to the University of Washington in Seattle where I earned a BFA in Fine Arts - Oil Painting in 2004. I then attended USMC Officer Candidate's School, and accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the summer of 2005. I served for four years as a logistics officer, stationed in Camp Lejeune and deployed worldwide. After the conclusion of my commission, I moved to Louisville, KY where I attended the University of Louisville, achieving a BA in Art History and a minor in Middle East and Islamic Studies.
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