Passion, Experience & Growth

Catch The Sun

June 18, 2020

“Every day it comes to this Catch the things you might have missed” — Doves, Catch The Sun

I encountered the song, Catch the Sun, in 2001 while playing Project Gotham (a racing game on the Xbox). Alone in my new townhouse, after the divorce from Anne that began earlier in the year, I was lonely. But the lyrics resonated with me. They gave me hope that there was a life ahead that I hadn’t yet lived… people… and family, and love, I hadn’t yet known.

Looking back over 19 years, in June 2020, I was in awe—everything had changed.

In 2020, I was thrilled to be working with my Wag! family. It was the life Joanne and I imagined during our California road trip together in March 2003.

It was her first time crossing the Mississippi. Our fourth “date”: We drove 500 miles south from San Jose. Leaving early in the morning from the final day of the Game Developer’s Conference for dinner the same night with friends in San Diego.

…we were married that December.

For the past four years, I’ve reflected on the Wikipedia history of the phrase, “may you live in interesting times” and continue to enjoy the echo across time and space:

“I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety.” - May you live in interesting times | Wikipedia

I was optimistic in June 2020, and wrote “I remain hopeful that 2020 will mark an awakening on so many levels, we’ll all be in awe.”

Perhaps I was a tad too optimistic. Or perhaps, I merely saw too far ahead. From the perspective of December 2023, I now believe that 2020 was just the beginning of a global awakening. I suspect that, someday, many of us will experience awe.

For now, I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times.