Many years ago...I had heard this song on radio...under dim lights, sleeping with ma. I would have to think it was tenth grade, the summer of '99. In the heart of the night,the sound of sweet lilting music filled me with so much warmth...I was sleepy because I never quite caught the name of the song or the artist. I never forgot the song, ofcourse the words faded, and the music was no more than a very faint jingle.

Today, 9 years down the line, I was searching youtube for John Denver's "leaving on a jet plane", the video ,the lyrics of the song ,for a reason I still cannot quite comprehend, compelled me to know more about the man who made such beautiful music and wrote such exquisite words.

Wikipedia ,like many occassions gives me a detailed account his life, works, and other trivia.

It talks of this and that. I can almost see, imagine the man right in front of my eyes.
I quote from wikipedia, Denver's first marriage was to Annie Martell of St. Peter, Minnesota. Annie was the subject of his much-beloved hit "Annie's Song".

I am alone in the lab and it's a sunday. So, as my trypsin-EDTA thaws, I hit the link for 'John Denver - Annie´s Song' posted by one...lsauria.
I get back to sifting through papers on the desk.
The music begins...there is a strange trembling in me.....much like when I heard the notes for Celine Dion's "evrynight in my dreams..." as i saw jack go down into the atlantic.
And then it all came rushing back.....the summer of '99. It wasn't a magnificent summer, but it was the summer I had heard this spectacular, almost haunting, lovely love song.
The magic was all over the room, recreated almost 9 years later.....
A thousand salutes and more to the "One" above...God....He sure has His ways......

"......you fill up my senses...like a night in the forest...like mountains in spring time...like a walk in the rain....."