Lately I’ve fallen out of the summer island groove, but with Mercury finally out of retrograde motion, the full moon finishing up, and Mars leaving Virgo, perhaps some relief is in store, and the rest of the summer can return to relaxation and rejuvenation. My hopes and expectations have been tempered of late, so I’ll be grateful for whatever summer deigns to give us next. A song then, from our island inspiration, to keep the summer going.
This song personified the summer of 1995 – and if you thought my recent return to 2005 took us way back, 1995 goes back thirty full years, thus leaving only snippets and an incongruous patchwork of memories. There was a train ride to Chicago during a heatwave, the last gasps of Madonna’s ‘Bedtime Stories’ era, and the first rumblings of all the drama that was about to ensue that fall. In the backdrop of all of it was this summer hit by TLC, gently percolating and offering warnings and melodies and water-laced atmosphere to cool us down. Summer cuts many ways.
