Forever Young

K and I went to see Steve Forbert in concert in downtown Hendersonville. Back in the day Steve Forbert was part of the "next Bob Dylan" conversation. Which really meant the "Voice of the Next Generation". Also in the conversation were John Prine, Loudon Wainwright, and yikes Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

We now know that Dylan was not the voice of a generation but just a singer/songwriter looking for Essence. We also know now that Leonard Cohen is a poet and Joni Mitchell a mystic. Performers like Steve Forbert moved in the penumbra, still visible behind the shadow of their early hope and promise.

Back to the present, he sang a song called Middle Age and one of the keeper ideas in the song was that we will never be younger again than we are right now.

So right now we have more experience than we have had before.

So right now we will never again be as young as we are this moment.

So right now we are all at the best point in our lives - balancing youth and experience. And, as we move through the vector of time this will remain true.