Music, the Southern Cross, and Australia

[valis2]

privatemaladict and I were having a conversation via LJ recently after she posted an entry about music, and how some music only has a "window of opportunity" for you to really enjoy it, and if you hear it at the wrong time in your life you'll be unaffected.

So recently I've been thinking about the song "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills & Nash. Look, I am not a big fan of theirs overall...I own not a single album...but somehow, the week before I left for Australia...actually, just a few days before I left, I heard SC on the radio. I've heard it a billion times before and never been affected.

Then I got to Australia. At the very end of the trip, on Heron Island, I went to a Night Sky presentation, and was standing in the dark amidst an alien landscape listening to a woman lecture about stars and constellations, when she pointed out the Southern Cross.

When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you understand now why you came this way...

And for some reason, the song now gives me this wonderful feeling, and I can recall that moment in the dark, with the splendor of the heavens, and the walk back alone to my little cabin, and the feeling that I was truly an adult, a woman walking the Earth and finding her way among the crash of the waves and the call of the night-birds.

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's so sweet! It's awesome when it can embody a mood you're feeling right at that moment.

I've bought CDs before and not listened to them for three years because the first listen was so boring...but then later had them in heavy rotation because they suddenly "spoke" to me.

Heh...two people replied to this entry with Trent icons...are you trying to send me a message? *giggles*

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

I had this icon since I went to the NIN concert, which was what prompted the very comment you mentioned in this post.