we went on a date last night to see these two.
i can’t count how many times i got the chills up in the balcony holding my sweetheart’s hand.
they were amazing. beautiful. perfect together.
today as i was about to throw my ticket away from last night’s performance i stopped.
i tend to get rid of things.
you know, the whole clutter thing.
chris however is the sentimental kind.
i wondered what he did with his ticket.
he saves everything.
he has a basket full of movie tickets, playbills, letters, notes written on paper napkins, cards, all from our last twenty some years together (yes we have been together since we were 19).
sometimes i will open a book to find a poem i wrote him or open a drawer to find a valentines day card i gave him from when we first got married.
those are the things i just can’t get rid of and as much as i want to organize them all and store them together in one place, i kind of like the surprise of finding something from the past in places i would least expect.
so i think i will tuck this little ticket of mine somewhere safe. somewhere random. somewhere i might find in ten years and remember listening to bluegrass up in the balcony holding his hand.
How funny – this came up in my reader so I couldn’t see the photo of the ticket, but when I read that you saw “these two”, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings immediately sprang to mind. Seeing them always rattles my cage in the very best way. Love the little mementos stuck in books and other little surprising places, and thinking about how it might be someone else who finds that ticket, maybe offspring, or someone else who wonders at it in a nice way.
I love them! I saw them last September, but in a big open outdoor stage. I used to be such a keeper of tickets and it is just a joy to open up a random book or journal and find them in there. Little time capsules! Enjoy your weekend!
i just recently found your space and i can’t tell you how much i’ve enjoyed looking and reading. it’s like i’m visiting with a friend. your photos and voice are wonderful.
i teared up a bit reading this. you two!
Dave Rawlings Machine was one of the best concerts we have ever seen. Love those two.
Thanks for your reassuring words. We are headed down the right path, I just know it. Sleep deprivation makes seeing that path a little fuzzy sometimes. We will get through it.
listening to her right now. dear someone.
because i let our garden ramble this year i am finding all sorts of little surprises popping up that never would have been there had i kept tidy beds! (southern hemisphere where we are)
happy summering to you!
I haven’t been here in sometime, but wanted to comment and say that I was there with my love as well. It was an excellent date night concert! The ticket, I taped inside my journal to save and remember the night as well.
Your blog is beautiful as our your words. I always get a little excited inside when I find such beauty on the internet so close by.