Just a bit more on Saturday night at Cerritos: Even though I ordered tickets early, I was foolish enough to buy the cheaper ones and my friend and I were too far back to hear many of the remarks Gordon made (I'm an older person and don't have great hearing). Also, what a mistake I made, as a "serious introvert", to not join the group at Mimi's! I would like to know all of you, and perhaps I might have been included on the "list of 20" who were allowed in at the stage door. (Thanks so much for the pictures, Kimberly, tho' it hurts that I might have been inside, shyness and all, having my picture taken with the man I admire so much . . . Maybe next year??? Or even Canada some day???)
Standing outside in a small hopeful group as the sprinkles started coming down, Terry Clements emerged and chatted for a bit. What a handsome, really NICE man he is!
Michelle, who is much younger than I and who was a Lightfoot fan in her teens, was thrilled with the evening, too. She said that when Gordon began to sing the very first song (Spanish Moss), his voice went deep into her heart and a surge of feelings welled up in her like a huge sob jolting her back to her early years, to emotions she had almost forgotten--all totally unexpected. From there on she felt quite transfixed.
What a gentle power this man has over so many of us. For me it's magical, almost mystical--the feelings that well up in me. And his age, or how his voice "holds up" or not doesn't take away from that magic. So much of it is in the words he has put down on paper and into the music of his being, of his great heart. Again I say "God bless him"--forever.
I must say that through most of his songs I sat there adoring him and sending deeply felt "I love you's" from my heart to him on that stage. I hope he takes into himself all the love so many of us feel for him. Perhaps that's much of the reason he was able to come through all that he did, and to return to the good health he seems to have now.
(I wonder where that gorgeous bracelet came from . . .)
Eva
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