Cliché, But it's True
Home is truly where the heart is.
Hopping off the plane, running, to the
open arms of my mother,
melting in her embrace,
everything bad in the world disappears.
important moments like these,
someday will be no more.
time spent, laughing with friends,
roasting marshmallows on the campfire with my niece,
undeniable moments of joy,
love,
yearning to stay like this forever.
waiting with my grandma in the hospital bed,
hand in hand,
everything will be okay,
remembering the days spent running around the house in her slippers,
eating all the cookies out of the cookie jar.
tears of joy, celebrating,
how much I've overcome in life,
everything I've achieved.
home follows me wherever I go -
evening walks through the city,
aromas in the air that bring me back to a certain time and place,
reminiscing about childhood memories,
true nostalgia.
it's not a place, but a feeling.
savor the moments in which those feelings arise
.
- HH
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Hannah Hess
A grad student trying to save the world, one species at a time.
While I study ecology, evolution, and conservation biology, I have a deep love writing about my family, pets, and life outside of academia. My stories are a bit of a mixed bag!
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By Hannah Hess3 months ago in Poets
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
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