Unrecoverable

I just listened to Garrison Keillor perform a tribute to John Updike, after which a performer sang Neil Young's "Helpless".

Something about the line "And in my mind I still need a place to go. All my changes were there" instantly brought tears to my eyes.

I can't really identify the reason. I rarely look back, and references to the pleasantries of what lies in the past strike me as wholly false.

But there are those times, not often, when remembrance of things long gone can evoke in me a rare sense of regret and loss.

And at such times everything seems just too, too sad.