[Top Jimmy]

For thanksgiving, my wife, younger son, and I drove clear across the state to Seattle to spend the day with my older son, daughter, and grandkids. Nowadays I prefer driving in silence but I was in a mood and on the round trip there and back I listened back to back to seven Rush studio albums beginning with “A Farewell to Kings” and ending with “Power Windows”. The last Rush song I listened to before learning of Neil’s passing was “Mystic Rhythms”.

I find the closing chorus to be apropos.

Mystic rhythms capture my thoughts
Carry them away
Mysteries of night escape the light of day
Mystic rhythms under northern lights
Or a canopy of stars
We feel the push and pull
Of restless rhythms from afar

Neil Peart. A mystic of rhythms.