After reading hard-hitting non-fiction I’ve turned to bubblegum books like We Found Love: Song by Song by Annie Zaleski.

It features love songs from 1936 to 2019 from Fred Astaire’s “The Way You Look Tonight” to Harry Styles “Adore You.”

With anecdotes of how the tunes were ccreated.

The 1992 Cure song “Friday I’m in Love” has been one of my favorite songs of theirs.

You can check this book out of the library for a fun short read in a couple of days.

In 1966 the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” featured this band that was originally a set of characters in The Monkees’ TV show that I loved to watch as a kid.

In 1965 Sonny and Cher were famous with “I Got You Babe.” The section on this song detailed that Cher would be thrown out of restaurants back then because of the clothes she wore.

The 1986 Peter Gabriel song “In Your Eyes” is featured here.

I liked the Jeffrey Gaines “In Your Eyes” better. The singer performed at BB King’s pre-Covid before that music-and-food venue shut down.

Have you ever loved your outfit more than the guy who took you on a date to a nightclub who you were seeing not dating?

Not every song talked about in We Found Love narrates a rosy romance. A list of such songs includes Blondie’s “One Way or Another” which is about a stalker actually.

Spring is here. April is the month of Sprouting Grass Moon in the lunar calendar.

Time I say for casting aside the acrimony against each other. Time for using our voices to take a stand against injustice of course.

Yet more than this spring should be a time of yes rebirth and rejuvenation.

Reprising the parts of our lives that we loved that have fallen away. Rejoicing in the person we were meant to be.

Love Wins. That’s all there is to it.