Picture Postcards from LA

I recently joined my cousin in an age old, postcard club. On Monday, when I opened my mailbox, in the midst of all the junk lies this brilliant little jewel!   A cardstock treasure smiling back at me, delivering a spot of joy to the ever so hot August afternoon.  Refreshing me with sand dunes and a beach scene, it arrived  all the way from the Virginia Shores!

And so after relishing in the childlike moment, I read the lines a few more times and held it in my hand ever so reminiscently and gently pasted it of course, to my refrigerator door!

My mind wandered back in time just before email, instant messaging, myspace, facebook and twitter…along to about 1994, my ninth grade year, listening to Joshua Kadison serenade my heart about Rachel’s trip to California to be a star, and sending “picture postcards from LA, signed with love forever more, to hang on my refrigerator door.”  So I had to bust out in a Kadison song during my “picture postcard moment.”  Because you know there is a song for every moment in life!

I know I’m not the only one with this lyrics-for-life obsession.  If someone says “hit me” – well, instantly you can’t help but hear Pat Benatar screaming out “Hit Me With your Best Shot — Fire Away” and then have this nagging desire to tight roll your jeans (no? really?).

It’s said, you never know what you have until its gone.  I wonder if any one else ever misses the long lost postcard club?  Or some of these long lost songs?  Do you have song lyrics spilling over into your life moments too?

a little memory lane…