the eternal optimist when it comes to music in the changing landscape it now finds itself in and are leading the way in continuing that search in the best ways possible while so many others (myself included) are stuck in the land of painful nostalgia. 

I feel so fortunate for coming of age in the era of music that I did and think the only way it would have been better would have been to have been present for the emergence of good Rock and Roll (man, I imagine what that must have been like to have heard that stuff when it hit).

Still, I compare my own relationship with music and become filled with melancholy that my own children will not have a similar experience to that of my own.  It also makes me wonder what parts of their relationship with music will be comparable to my own - if any.

Yes, there are great advantages to instant downloads the internet and so on and to be honest, until I started using Spotify I really did not realize how much really good music was spread across the spectrum out there.  Their created Friday's and Monday's playlists based on my preferences really expose so many unknown artists. 

But still....that relationship from the past.  From the old nine-volt battery handheld AM transistor radios to what we have now.  Who would have thought. And think, someday we will probably have the ability to have sound Bluetoothed right into our brains.