Day 3: Military Lingo and Van Morrison

One of my students wrote the Division/Classification paper on ARMY sections. Since my friend Meghan is at Fort Jackson for Basic Training, the paper was enlightening. I intend to keep this paper for future reference, especially if I end up editing or writing for military clients.

Another student wrote about the affects of different types of music on our moods for the Division/Classification assignment. At the same time, I was listening to Van Morrison's "Hymns to the Silence." "Brown Eyed Girl" is nothing compared to some of these songs and spoken poems. My mood is pleasant, quiet, reflective despite the urgency of grades that I need to be assigning.

"And meeting down by the pylons...stopping at Fusco's for ice cream in the days before rock 'n roll..."
I used to think he was saying, "in the days before Rocky Road - before ice cream had more complex flavors - when ice cream was pure.
"...Hynford Street, Abetta Parade, Orangefield, St. Donard's Church, Sunday, six bells..."
Is it Van Morrison's Irish accent? Or does Ireland happen to have all the poetic place names?
"...and in between the silence there was conversation and laughter and and music and singing and shivers up the back of the neck." On Hynford Street Van Morrison

"We lived where dusk had meaning..."
"...And I wanna climb that hillside with you one more time." Pagan Streams Van Morrison

What does Van Morrison mean by "repair?" Return? Go back to the way it was?
Before finding the lyrics, my dad and I philosophized about what the word "nigh" meant when he said, "always being nigh," but what Morrison was really saying was, "It's always being now." So I wonder still... What's the essence of the phrase, "it's always being now?" My sixth poet's sense tells me it has to do with living in the present enough to savor all it has to offer for the one who will receive it.