While there is time, let's go out and feel everything

 I wish I had written this this morning when it was fresh in my head, but I was on my way to work, so I didn't

I have been thinking about a lot of things regarding the current state of the United States. It scares me and I keep hoping that someone- or a group of someones can stop the tide of madness that is the current Republican Party.  Unstable, unqualified candidates for Cabinet?  Let them in without vetting because our Lord and Master, the Second Coming Orange JEEZUS says we must.

Again I wonder what he has on all of them.

I heard a song on the radio- well I listen to streaming so it was my "Jackson Browne station- that made me think

Stevie Winwood's "Finer things"

While there is time
Let's go out and feel everything
If you hold me
I will let you into my dreams
For time is a river rolling into nowhere
We must live while we can
And we'll drink our cup of laughter

The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be

I've been sad
And have walked bitter streets alone
And come morning
There's a good wind to blow me home
So time be a river rolling into nowhere
I will live while I can
I will have my ever after

The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be

We go so fast, why don't we make it last
Life is glowing inside you and me
Please take my hand, right here where I stand
Won't you come out and dance with me, oh
Come see

And lovers try
'Til they get the best of the night
And come morning
They are tangled up in the light
So time be a river rolling into nowhere
And they love while they can
And they think about the night so sweet

The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be

The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Steve Winwood / Will Jennings

The Finer Things lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group

The lyrics spoke to me in a way that made me think.  Recently, several of my friends who are my age have passed and as one is wont to do when that happens, I am looking back over my life AND I am looking at the now of my life.  "While there is time, let's go out and feel everything"  I wonder if I want to feel everything? Maybe. Although I tend  to feel that Stevie is not talking about feeling scared or helpless, but about all that life has to offer. Letting our souls get lost in one another.

Nothing is certain, but we plan anyway. That is hope. People who know me say I am a planner, which to some extent I am. But I think my planning is rooted in the hope that my plans will be necessary and will result in the end product of hope; joy.

As we watch two of the most vindictive and cruel people in most recent times work to dismantle a 249 year experiment, we must retain hope and work toward the outcome we desire.  We must rise.