The rain started coming in sideways — Joe played it off cool at first, then decided he was done with the strom entirely and followed me from room to room the rest of the night. Frank took a different approach — bedroom to four seasons room, four seasons room to bedroom, back and forth, working through it on his own terms.

This kind of weather has this calm, heavy kind of Oregon vibe to it — albeit, I was only in Oregon for a couple weeks, so what do I know about Oregon vibes?

But I had this song on. Helen by Nizlopi. Hadn't heard it in years. It was on my rotation back in high school. On the mixtapes. On the burnt CDs I'd make for my friends and lovers — you know the ones. The Sharpie on the disc. The little track list inside the jewel case if you were really doing it right.

And it just took me back. All the way back.

The mountain moments. The firsts. The people who showed up at exactly the right time and made it impossible to forget that season of your life. There's something about a song that does that — bypasses everything and just puts you right back in the room.

I sat with it for a while.

Not everybody has those moments. Not everybody had those people. And if you did — if you've got a few of those memories tucked away somewhere — that's worth more than most things you'll ever own.

Don't take it for granted.

I just cracked open Pride and Prejudice for the first time.

A good friend loved this book. My mother loved this book. Her sisters loved this book. My sister loved the book. So here I am.

Here's the thing though — Matthew Macfadyen apparently plays Mr. Darcy in the movie. The dreamboat. The one every woman in the book is supposed to fall apart over.

Matthew Macfadyen. Tom from Succession. The guy who spent four seasons being a lovable, bumbling, awkward weirdo who somehow kept failing upward through one of the most dysfunctional families on television.

That guy is Mr. Darcy.

So now I'm reading this book — this sweeping, romantic, nineteenth-century classic — and every time Mr. Darcy walks into a room, all I can see is Tom shuffling in behind him going "uhh, yeah, no, totally — " and then saying something deeply uncomfortable.

It makes me laugh. I'm going to go with it.

What songs and books take you back? Tell me about them!

Warmly,

Rob Bergeron

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