Close Encounters

Was reminded of something tonight .....

I was at a jam-packed Music Millenium in Portland once for an in-store performance by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and while navigating through the sea of humanity after the show, I had the sudden realization: "Hey that was them" that just brushed by me. I'm talking an inch or two separation .... shared space going opposite directions. My encounter with someone famous. 

And I said "Thank you" to folkie/singer-songwriter, Ellis Paul as he sat in the foyer of an old church, between sets of a wonderful, small venue performance in Portland ..... Just saw him sitting there and blurted out: "Thank you."  It was all I could think of to say. It was what came to me in the immediate moment when I had to think fast. 

Admittedly, a lot for me. I can be so talkative and bold at times. 🤣

I said the same "thank you" to Dave Bruzza from the band, Greensky Bluegrass to complete the transaction of purchasing a cd from a suitcase at Hotel Oregon in McMinnville. 

I wonder tonight if any of those folks recall those encounters beyond those respective split seconds in musical history and time? 😆🤣 

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Did we 'spring forward' another hour? Are we now on daylight savings time-plus? 

I was looking at the jazz radio station playlist for a song heard on my car radio at 6:30pm and there's a listing for the five and seven o'clock hours but it's like the six o'clock hour didn't happen. 

That's the kind of luck that I always have. It's like I'm the victim of a high school prank.