I saw THE POLICE with David a couple weeks ago. It was great. As Bode says, “REALLY [H]UGE Daddy!” In some ways it was like having my head spun round in a complete circle. Twice.

Don’t get me wrong, this reunion tour thing is monumental. Many many resources going in to organizing, marketing, and ultimately selling it to 30 and 40 somethings like me (and to the corporate sponsors). Not to mention the monumental energy expended with 15-20,000 people traveling to and from the concert, burning $3/gal gas.

It’s not quite the same as piling 6 teens in a 77 Corrolla and driving 3hrs. to watch a show with 150 people. Ahh, nastalgia you say? No, not really. The point is I think it changes you. In the same way it did 25 years ago when you first listened to So Lonely or Bring On The Night. You think a little bit differently today than you did yesterday. And then you do some things differently - like belt out De Do Do Do Do De Da Da Da with your son at the top of your lungs. No harm in passing on perfect pop syncopated rhythms to the next generation…

We clasp the hands of those that go before us,
And the hands of those who come after us.
We enter the little circle of each other’s arms
And the larger circle of lovers,
Whose hands are joined in a dance,
And the larger circle of all creatures,
Passing in and out of life,
Who move also in a dance,
To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it
Except in fragments
— Wendell Berry

*Title from Synchronicity