It's funny how a song can bring back memories so vivid it's like you experienced them only yesterday. One such song for me is “Boys of Summer” by Don Henley. The music and lyrics are very poignant and maudlin of days past, especially growing up in Florida and spending summers at the beaches. Those late summer evenings when the beaches empty early due to cooler weather is a sorrowful experience for us beach bound southerners, as it signaled the end of lazy sunny days and a return to school. Even now as an adult, no longer privy to they months-long, carefree, summertime breaks, the change in weather certain songs still bring about the strong feelings of those long-gone days of youth. Needless to say, driving down the highway, in January, in Idaho, the juxtaposition of warm summer nights with the chilly windy north was rather strong.
Earlier in the morning while having breakfast with a friend we found ourselves explaining what can only be described as a true “Southernism”.
