{"id":3683,"date":"2020-07-10T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:22:45","slug":"may-the-wind-take-your-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/may-the-wind-take-your-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"May The Wind Take Your Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpf_wrapper\"><a class=\"print_link\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Print this entry<\/a><\/p><!-- .wpf_wrapper --><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>May the wind take your troubles away<\/em><em><br \/>\nMay the wind take your troubles away<br \/>\nBoth feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel,<br \/>\nMay the wind take your troubles away<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWindfall,\u201d by Son Volt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWindfall\u201d was written 25 years ago by Jay Farrar of Son Volt, a fine Americana band whose music I haven\u2019t listened to in years. It popped up in one of the mixes that Spotify creates based on what else I have been listening to. The song is partly about taking a road trip and trying to catch a radio station\u2019s signal while driving in the boonies.<\/p>\n<p>Most mornings, I switch from Red River Radio to Spotify once \u201cMorning Edition\u201d ends. Spotify\u2019s playlists have introduced me to talented singer-songwriters I have not heard before, mixed in with my perennial favorites \u2014 John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Nancy Griffin and Jason Isbell, to name a few. That\u2019s how Son Volt crept back into my audio picture. \u201cWindfall\u201d gets played at least once a day. It fits the times. Plus, it brings back sweet memories of past road trips and vacations with<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3685\" src=\"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos-680x452.jpg 680w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rainbow-over-Taos.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Beautiful Mystery Companion and daughter Abbie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On our first trip to Taos, New Mexico, two summers ago, we were winding our way back to the condo rented a few miles south of Taos Ski Valley. Late nearly every afternoon, a thundershower sweeps through in mid-summer. We had waited out the latest round of showers dining outside under cover, listening to a talented singer-songwriter as the rain dripped off the awnings. As we began the 30-minute drive back to the condo, the highway ran through pastureland with the Sangre de Cristo range in the background. A rainbow briefly popped up over the mountains. All felt well with the world, at least for the moment.<\/li>\n<li>On a return trip last summer, we hiked in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in Embudo, New Mexico. We trekked the Little Arsenic Springs trail to the confluence of the Red River (a different waterway from the river that partly divides Texas and Oklahoma) with the Rio Grande del Norte. Its headwaters are not far north, across the line in Colorado\u2019s San Juan mountains. The Rio Grande in northern New Mexico scarcely resembles the largely placid waterway that divides Texas and Mexico, more than a thousand miles south. It carves an 800-foot gorge through the land, a fast-rushing, wide river. It was a majestic sight, seeing where those two rivers joined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Now and then it keeps you running<\/em><em>It never seems to die<br \/>\nThe trail&#8217;s spent with fear<br \/>\nNot enough living on the outside<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dozen years ago, in the first year of our courtship, we loaded up and headed to Far West Texas. My BMC and daughter Abbie had never been to West Texas. A friend at the time owned the <em>Alpine Avalanche<\/em> newspaper, whose office had a lovely loft above it, which he generously loaned us for a week. That was our home base as we explored. I recall the look of horror on my traveling companion\u2019s faces when we passed through Midland and Odessa \u2014 flat country with trash and tumbleweeds plastered against barbwire fences alongside the interstate. \u201cI promise, it gets prettier,\u201d I said. It did, of course.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3684\" src=\"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2-600x406.jpg 600w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2-680x460.jpg 680w, https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/El-Prado-storm-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We visited Big Bend, spent a lovely evening looking at the stars through telescopes at McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains, ate lunch in Marfa, had a drink at the Gage Hotel in Marathon. We traveled the Wild Rose Pass, the highway between Fort Davis and Marfa, which is one of the prettiest stretches of road in Texas. Nice memory of that first year of us being together as a family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are many other memories \u2014 Pacific Northwest, Asheville, Memphis, New England, Broken Bow, Washington, D.C. My BMC and I began to reconstruct a timeline a few weeks ago of our many trips but got sidetracked. We need to get back on that project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be no road trips this summer, and probably not this autumn either, since there is no reason to believe COVID-19 is just going to disappear, as our delusional president claims. In early June, we briefly began plotting a return to Taos but quickly abandoned that notion as cases started spiking \u2014 and continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re homebound with great memories of past adventures and hopeful to hit the road again once a vaccine is developed. It\u2019s a minor inconvenience in the great scheme of things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Never seem to get far enough<\/em><em><br \/>\nStaying in between the lines<br \/>\nHold on to what you can<br \/>\nWaiting for the end<br \/>\nNot knowing when<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>May the wind take your troubles away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>May the wind take your troubles away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel<\/em><br \/>\n<em>May the wind take your troubles away<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpf_wrapper\"><a class=\"print_link\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Print this entry<\/a><\/p><!-- .wpf_wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print this entryMay the wind take your troubles away May the wind take your troubles away Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel, May the wind take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[73,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73","category-columns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyborders.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}