Neil Young once imagined himself as a
salmon swimming upstream, and he wrote a song about it. It's kind of a hallucination, a vision. Certainly one of Neil's strangest, weirdest songs, pretty great too, a song he recorded
"alone in a single take on a two-track cassette tape, sitting in front of a fireplace playing acoustic guitar." You can hear the crackling and popping of the logs as he sings. Amazing.
Why is this song front of mind this morning? Often I feel like a salmon too, swimming upstream, against the current, against the odds. Yes, I too have the "will to love." Dodging harpoons daily...
"I remember the ocean
from where I came
Just one of millions all the same
But somewhere someone calls my name
I'm a harpoon dodger, and I can't, won't be tamed."
