Amazing Grace

You change and grow over the years.

Develop. Diversify.

You still love to do some things that you'll probably always love doing, while other interests fade or at least lose some of their lasting appeal.

It seems like this for awhile anyways, but then what seems like 4 years turns into 15, and some of those things that lost their appeal start fascinating again, with qualities beyond expression, seeking unbridled laidback articulations.

You start to notice different things to, or at least observe features you've never noticed before, even though they've been right there in front of you all along, but for some reason have never registered.

Thus the middle-age malaise slowly transforms into a constructive resonance, with a decade and a half more worth of material generating new multifaceted syntheses.

Compelling new ideas and old school boasts of the wild eternal instructively present themselves thereby, revitalizing aspects of the same old same old, while cultivating alternative realms for exploration.

I used to only really zero in on leaf colour in the fall, for instance, but I've started to notice so many wonderful varieties of green this year, perhaps because so many trees were late to bloom.

One prick of a cold Spring dagnabit, that's finally abounding in nascent wonder.

I doubt Aretha Franklin ever lost this regenerative spark of irrepressible contemplation, as she changed and grew over the years, without losing sight of where she came from, or missing a spry tenacious sprightly step.

In Amazing Grace she returns to her gospel roots by performing hymns she loved to sing in her youth, reinterpreted with agile soul, flexibly delivered with profound freedom.

It's like her music found a way in the '60s and '70s to harness communal revelation, blending unique characteristic rhythms with timeless distinct style, gracefully flowing with burgeoning traditions while discovering inspiring orchestrations of her own, thoughtfully scored moving fermentations, abundantly provoking rich frank soulful thought.

And feeling.

She wrote rapturous music that still resonates today with that timeless emboldened innocence that leads to so much wonder.

Cool to see her rockin' it old school in Amazing Grace.

Overflowing with lithe intensity.

Damned impressive age old age old.