Mayluna

by Kelley McNeil

He often said that time travel was more accessible to us than we realize, and that music is one of the ways we do it. He’s right, I think. After all, few things have the ability to transport us so completely and powerfully as the sound of the perfect, meaningful song. The music of our lifetime is woven into the fabric of our existence, our own personal soundtrack behind our stories. Maybe it takes us to a memory, an echo of something that once was, or maybe to a place where we can live out an imagined dream.

He had an uncanny way of making comments that felt like a vitamin I hadn’t realized I’d been deficient in. Nourishing.

Sometimes when I’m in large crowds now, I’ll look around at everyone’s faces and think that you never know what’s going on in someone’s world while they walk through life as if everything is normal.