Everything is Green

I have had a passionate love affair this summer. Our time together is spent entirely in the sunbaked hours. At times we allow others to share the enjoyment of our company, however the love is most pure while listening to Built to Spill jam sessions alone. The best part of it all is that everything is green.

“Will you birdy? Will you bogey? It doesn’t matter much. Just keep your head down and swing right round and soon you’ll be in the cup.”

The golf season is just about over. I’m surely going to take every advantage I can to get out there in the chilly weather. The feel of the club hitting the ball just right and watching the little white dot fly through the sky and land gently on freshly cut grass is what keeps me coming back.
 

“I never saw that boy in you locked behind your eyes.”

As I watch these older men approaching their seventies and eighties still able to give their balls a good stroke, they all have one thing in common. There is that youthful gleam in their eyes as they watch their shot soar. Even if their limbs are creaky, their minds fading, and their distance diminishing, they are still able to hit a ball and compete.

“In the woods what will we find? This day was made for you and I.”

 

Essex Green's "Everything is Green" has been a favorite song of mine for at least half a decade, however this discovery of the songs true meaning was never as clear as the gorgeous melody. Ah! the mystery of a well crafted tune.