Strange memories on this nervous night in Sacramemto. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era - -the kind of peak that never comes again. Sacramento in the early 2000s was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not Downtown, then 80 West to San Francisco or down I-5 to Los Angeles or San Diego. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning
And that, I think, was the handle - -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - -on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Sacramento and look down, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - -the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.....
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not Downtown, then 80 West to San Francisco or down I-5 to Los Angeles or San Diego. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning
And that, I think, was the handle - -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - -on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Sacramento and look down, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - -the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.....