Paved paradise, put up a parking lot
Do you know what the Paradise was?It was a set of apartments in Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights. It was an amazing place, a luxurious, exclusive community where the stars of the day lived and loved and partied and orgied and everything. I seem to remember having heard that Clark Gable or someone like that swam naked in the fountain once. They tore the place down sometime later, sometime after the stars had all abandoned Hollywood. It's an El Pollo Loco or something like that now.
All this as introduction to say that the song of the above line has come to play a role in my latest round of lesson learning. I take the hint, I really do. I mean, I'm talking at work to a co-worker about Joni Mitchell and that song...the line "don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone" one day. The next day what shows up in my horoscope? "The key to success, at all levels of life, is adaptability. Make the most of what you have rather than wishing things were otherwise. Behind all this, there is a hidden opportunity. " So like I say, I get the hint.
It's all part of this "live in the now" thing. I've spent a great deal of time thinking about this...trying to figure out what the heck that means. And I'd been slipping into more of a "coulda shoulda woulda" mindset of late, so it was a wakeup call. I know that. And even better, I think I understand now. I think I get the "live in the now" thing. Make the most of what you have, not wish you had otherwise. I think I get it now. It's an effort. I'll have to keep trying, keep learning, but I do get it. I think.
So I guess I should say thanks Joni. Thanks for the big yellow taxi.
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