As soon as I woke up, I checked my phone and somehow ended up looking through my YouTube feed. I’m not sure why this song showed up there but I HAD TO listen to it and I was immediately taken back to being young and my Parents’ living room having a green carpet. I thought of having family picnics with my Mom, my Abuela and my Mom’s brothers, sisters, and their families at Willow park. I posted it on Facebook and tagged my two oldest brothers:
This song was in my head for most of the morning. I listened to it at least three or four times before Sean and my Mom had to move the cars out front so I decided to absentmindedly search through the Tunes tab on my blog to find a good song because I KNOW that I like all of the songs there because I posted them!
Sean came back into the house and went straight into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. I was listening to this song and it ended just as he opened the door:
I scrolled a little bit further and I saw that I had posted this song a little while ago and I wanted to hear it again:
Sean continued to pull things out of the refrigerator as the introduction started and it was at the refrain that he stopped moving and popped his head up! He stopped what he was doing and asked me how he knows the song?! I let him see my phone’s display j The second time the refrain started. He closed the fridge and walked over to hold my phone. He remembered this song, “In the corner of my mind“ and kind of sang-along and told me that this song reminds him of laying on the floor in my Mom’s living room running his hand across the carpet.
He didn’t know the green carpet, I think that was changed out when I was in high school so he has only known her living room with a beige carpet. She has hardwood floors now though. It made me laugh that Sean had a memory from his youth just as I had a memory from my youth this morning and they both were caused by songs!