SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND

San Bernadino Area, California, August 09
(Yes, I am still talking about my road trip vacation, so I am a slacker, almost done! )

Have you ever had a moment where all your senses just seem to gel, where a song came on the radio that coincidentally summed up what you were experiencing at that moment from your other senses? That is what this was like for us. We couldn't even talk, held into the moment, the sensation of watching these sublime peices of machinery crank out to the tune of the song that happened to come on the radio, "Shine on Crazy Diamond". It was a Pink Floyd moment like something from a video movie of theirs. I can't recreate this for you, except to say that here are the images we were processing, only their motion was perfectly matching the movement of the song, the lyrics of which I am throwing in here, to give you a sense of what we were experiencing....

Remember when you were young, You shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond.

Now there's a look in your eyes, Like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond.

You were caught on the crossfireOf childhood and stardom, Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, You cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond. Threatened by shadows at night, And exposed in the light. Shine on you crazy diamond. Well you wore out your welcome With random precision, Rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine