I'm reposting this because I was listening to it in the car today and it brought me such joy. As I wrote below, it harkens back to a time in my life when life was…simpler. A happier time, a feeling these last seven months have (hopefully only temporarily) robbed me of.
This is a playlist that I put together a few years ago and burned onto CD as a holiday gift for my surviving friends from the 80s with whom I shared these musical memories. These songs—mostly from the mid-to-late years of the decade—in addition to the pop hits of the day, comprised the soundtrack of our lives as we transitioned from life in Tucson to life in San Francisco. It puts me in a…strange…headspace, so I don't listen to it very often, but sometimes it's just what the doctor ordered to remind me that life has not always been the psychic clusterfuck we all currently find ourselves living through.