Winter songs
I've written often about how songs bring me back to a certain memory or, a general time and feeling around when the song was popular. For example, I've been hearing "(Your Love Is Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" by Rita Coolidge on the oldies station lately, and it's reminding me of the going to Milwaukee with my dad to see a Brewers game in 1977. I can't remember exactly where I heard it, but likely, somewhere in our journey to County Stadium and back, it came on the AM radio (probably more than once) and forever embedded in my brain as a memory of that day. My brain doesn't just connect songs to a specific day or occasion. "Welcome to the Jungle" reminds me of my first semester of college; "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" ruled radio in the spring of 1985; and "Beautiful Day" by U2 will always be connected to fall 2000 after we moved to Utah. Granted, everyone feels these connections, to other things besides songs, to