“Now that she’s back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair,
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there’s time to change,
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June”
– Train
Walking through ancient lava fields, alongside a creek bed, and into a serene canyon where the echo of hawks is amplified off the sandstone walls. An impressive 200 foot arch sprawls above us. Johnson Canyon is a paradise in the desert.
Johnson Canyon is located just outside the fee area of Snow Canyon State Park in Utah. It’s a short two mile hike that is pretty easy and very beautiful. You must hike this in the fall/winter though because the trail is closed every year from March 15 to September 14.
I’ve been trying to be consistent with posting on this blog as well as on instagram, but I do have strings of time where I go AWOL. I miss my mom. When waves of grief engulf me, it feels paralyzing. I withdraw and lose motivation to keep up with everything in life. I do eventually pick myself up and keep pushing forward. Please just hang in there with me when I momentarily disappear.
The lead singer of Train, Patrick Monahan, lost his mother to cancer too. The opening lines of Drops of Jupiter came to him in a dream. He said, “The process of creation wasn’t easy. I just couldn’t figure out what to write, but then I woke up from a dream about a year after my mother passed away with the words ‘back in the atmosphere…It was just her way of saying what it was like – she was swimming through the planets and came to me with drops of Jupiter in her hair.”
“Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back to the milky way
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind
Was it everything you wanted to find
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there”
– Train
