{"id":529,"date":"2025-05-02T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misplacedmemories.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-05-03T05:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:43:23","slug":"blossoms-and-goodbyes-spring-and-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misplacedmemories.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/blossoms-and-goodbyes-spring-and-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossoms and Goodbyes: Spring and Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:51.61057%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bailey1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bailey1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bailey1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1008&#038;ssl=1 1008w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"756\" data-id=\"530\" data-link=\"https:\/\/misplacedmemories.com\/?attachment_id=530\" data-url=\"https:\/\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bailey1.jpg\" data-width=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bailey1.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 2 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:48.38943%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9134-1-1024x819.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9134-1-1024x819.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9134-1-1024x819.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9134-1-1024x819.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1200\" data-id=\"532\" data-link=\"https:\/\/misplacedmemories.com\/?attachment_id=532\" data-url=\"https:\/\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9134-1-1024x819.jpg\" data-width=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misplacedmemories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_9134-1-1024x819.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 2 of 2 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-color-color has-background-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c26ff04680d9456df581011dc953fc66\">Spring and Sorrow<br><br>When apple blossoms paint the trees <br>Their petals&#8217; scent perfumes the breeze <br>When robins return from Winter&#8217;s sleep <br>Blades of grass shoot through the leaves <br><br>Promise! Hope! The people proclaim <br>No, not me, I can only wane <br>A black curtain of death and pain <br>Name upon name. Name upon name. <br><br>The season of life now reeks like death <br>A distinctive rot on sweet Spring&#8217;s breath <br>The foul scythe swooped with terrible breadth <br>Rending our hearts, our souls, our heads<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Josh&#8217;s Musings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">At Misplaced Memories, we like to have fun. Our music IS FUN. But, if you listen to our lyrics, the songs come from the heart. From pure, unbridled emotion. It\u2019s what attracted me to this project in the first place. Music IS personal. And so are the stories behind the music. So, since I\u2019m the chief of technology for Misplaced Memories, you\u2019ll have to indulge my ramblings in a new segment I\u2019ll call Josh\u2019s Musings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Spring in Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Spring in Michigan is one of extremes. We all know this. We played Mulligan&#8217;s on St. Paddy\u2019s day weekend when it was 73 degrees and yet on May 2, I still had to don a coat and gloves to take my daughter to school this morning. We look for signs that summer is coming. And to this California-raised kid, summer is the great promise, the hope that keeps me alive through the hell-scape of a Michigan winter. So, when those first apple blossoms appear and I must dodge suicidal robins as they avoid my tires, my mental state is lifted naturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Loss Taints Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Yet the last four seasons of new life and rebirth have been personally marked by death, pain, and loss. Grandparents succumbing to the inevitable march of time and most recently, and even more acutely, the loss of a beloved pet\u2026 a member of the family. Bailey was a rabbit. A rabbit that, at first appeared so normal, I infamously told my wife I didn\u2019t want \u201can ordinary rabbit.\u201d Well, through the glass at the pet-section at Weyvale Garden Center in Huntingdon, England back in January 2017, this \u2018ordinary rabbit\u2019 chose her. Bailey turned to look at my wife with giant ears pointing her way, and with a wordless, &#8220;Hi there&#8221; hooked her on the spot. An \u2018ordinary rabbit\u2019 who became the ET to my wife\u2019s Elliot. An \u2018ordinary rabbit\u2019 who instinctively connected to her on an emotional level. An \u2018ordinary rabbit\u2019 who sat by her side the whole day my wife\u2019s grandfather was buried. An animal that literally left her mark on everything in our house\u2026 we still find items \u2018autographed\u2019 by her teeth. A connoisseur of cardboard, she infamously loved authentic Chinese food (Amazon boxes imported straight from the PRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Two weeks ago today, she succumbed to what we think was cancer. Our greatest solace was being able to be with her as she died\u2026 my wife\u2019s hands comforting her as Bailey, terrified, tried out outrun death itself\u2026 on her side, legs sprinting until the sad harvester caught up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Art and Healing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Spring. Life. Death. The endless cycle. What does this have to do with music? Everything. What is art? What is poetry? What is music? To me they have always been the languages of emotions. How to convey the feelings that are indescribable. Therapeutic processing of life\u2019s events. After Bailey died, I put down the pop-punk, the happy-go-lucky fun music and went back to the sad. Listening to \u201cDisintegration\u201d by <em>The Cure<\/em> is my kind of therapy. I learned to play \u201cAngels\u201d by <em>Robbie Williams<\/em> on the guitar. Music is always there for me no matter what the feelings I have and music has never failed to assist in processing those times in life\u2026 happy or sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I used to love this season only as for the hope it portended (because honestly, not many people love the chaos and catastrophe of Michigan spring weather) \u2026 now, I worry that March and April will just be another reminder of the temporal nature of life. 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