Roger Zee Memoirs
Carol 05/18/20
As the nice weather moves in and Covid NY starts to open up, I close up and isolate even more. I see so many friends post pictures on social media of group outings at local parks and beaches really enjoying themselves. Most wear masks but many don't maintain the 6 ft. social distance. I say nothing online but it makes me even more hesitant to venture out of my apartment due to extreme risk. Fortunately I walk up and down the 200 stairs in my apartment building 2 or 3 times a day and do 2 Yoga sessions as well in order to get the necessary exercise. When I'm finished, I hang out on the roof. Welcome to another episode of my memoirs, "Life and Times of a Pandemic Musician."
Trying to focus on the positive today. While learning the bass parts to Jackson Browne's "For Everyman" album, I reminisce about my junior year at Brandeis University, living in my single room with my college sweetheart, Carol S. Although it ended "Tangled Up In Blue," she gave me some of the best memories of my life. Smoking weed and skinny dipping at midnight at Walden Pond, swinging off the tree hanging vines into the water, and then stopping at Dunkin Donuts where the young counter guy, enamored with my girl, bagged up all the day's leftovers for us to take back to the dorm. By the way, Carol also turned me on to this record!
I remember writing a paper on hypnosis at school. While hanging out at Carol's dorm suite with her buds one night, she dared me to hypnotize her. I actually got her to take off almost all of her clothes, LOL! But just before I released her from the trance, I instructed her not to remember anything. She didn't. But her friends sure did!
"These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend.
Don't confront me with my failures.
I have not forgotten them."
YouTube - These Days- Jackson Browne
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