Editorial

August 11, 2010

Two events worth mentioning took place since our last issue. One was a concert and the other was a visit to New Harmony, Ind.

I haven’t attended a concert in a long time. Anymore I would rather buy a group’s CDs and listen to them peacefully at home rather than pay the high-ticket cost for a concert, fight the traffic and crowds, or wait in line for everything.

A friend of mine who is a big country music fan had purchased tickets to see the duo Brooks & Dunn and asked me if I would be interested in not only going to see them but meeting them backstage before the concert. I had barely heard of them and did not know even one of their songs. I decided to listen and watch their music videos online to see how they sound. After listening to 24 of their songs, I told my friend that I definitely wanted to go.

Recently I have been experiencing health challenges due to stress from moving three times in two years along with other major changes. And after giving my promise to attend, on the day of the concert, I wasn’t feeling well and was considering canceling. However, during a short phone conversation with my friend, I was persuaded to go.

This was an outdoor concert, and the temperature was more than 90 degrees. After finding our seats, I looked around and saw not just young people, but all ages. While listening to the warm-up bands, I was thinking, whom in their right mind plops down $75 a ticket to relish battling this heat for several hours and the aforementioned crowding.

Then Brooks & Dunn took the stage. For the first 30 minutes all 30,000 people in the audience remained standing; some even stood longer.

In the last issue of the paper, my brother wrote about different kinds of love. I saw firsthand another kind that wasn’t mentioned. These diehard fans loved every song, every word spoken, and every gesture of this duo. Feeling all kinds of aches and pains before they took the stage, I had those washed away with this outpouring of love. Well into the next day, I was still healed of pain by all that love.

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