Moved by Color
The British Invasion. Stowe, VT 9/10/2021
Although car shows aren't routine for me, I thoroughly absorbed the pigments of Stowe's car show this weekend.
I love this color! I feel at ease, calm, and at the same time happy and inspired. An esoteric, deep, resonant, saturated energy. I can't explain why; I only know how I feel when I see it.
After viewing some cool cars (mostly admiring colors...my appreciation for model, make, and engines is nonexistent), and dinner at the cozy Green Mountain Inn restaurant (The Whip), we enjoyed the live band's final songs…
I had never really listened to Pink Floyd's song Comfortably Numb. As the lyrics drew me in, I heard, felt, and saw nothing but the band, and was engulfed by the song's meaning.
As the story goes...
"In an interview released in the 80s, Waters said that much of the song comes from something that really happened one evening when, in order to allow him to perform in Philadelphia, the doctor gave him a sedative for a severe stomach ache, which had probably been caused by nerves. On the stage, his hands were numb and his vision blurred, but none of this derailed the crowd, who continued to dance and sing. And it was out of this that one of the main themes of The Wall came about: the disconnect between the public and the band."
Arghenini, I. (2019, July 28). Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb: behind the meaning of the lyrics. Auralcrave. https://auralcrave.com/en/2019/01/29/pink-floyds-comfortably-numb-behind-the-meaning-of-the-lyrics/
Medication to numb stomach pain hindered access to receptive-joy; joy conveyed by swaying, singing, fans. And what about the porous tuned-in lyric listener? Meaningful language is more relational when it crosses unburdened synapses, is it not?
Feeling all the colors of life is no easy art lesson. Willingness to sit in grey, murky, putrid, grassy-swamp-green, is a big ask. And yet when we show-up, breathe and feel into our bodies, we cultivate clarity, connection, and the capacity to curate from a wider palette.
