I Love the Life Within Me

In his season sweet on side two, John Denver sings these lines that I haven't been able to get out of my head for weeks. Maybe it seems a bit frivolous, given everything that is going on in 2021, to have been so fixated on this piece of Americana from a 1972 country album. But in this time of spreading disease with a new baby and our loved ones kept at a painful distance, I think I've needed Denver's unapologetic and joyful affirmation of our connection with something greater than ourselves.