The 'Yeah' Heard Round My World

Collective Soul Unlocking A Core Memory Photo unrelated. Trying to get the studio all packed up and cleaned out but also going through the photo backlog. Here's Kindy. My partner Della's music shuffle library is truly a gift. She has effectively every song she owns on shuffle at any given time so it's not uncommon to just randomly hear Ani DiFranco followed by 2Pac, then a PeacPRC song, a chunk from Girl Talk's Feed the Animals, then a Feeder track from the Buffy soundtrack fade into a 9 minute Sarah McLachlan club remix. Last night, a live version of Collective Soul's Shine came on her shuffle and I was hit with this like, incredibly vivid memory and lemme tell you, after 21 years of being married it's rad when either one of us can pull a "Oooh you don't know this one!" I was about 11 and in a car with my best friend and his older brother (I think their mom was driving because while a lot of my memories of that older brother involve him behind the wheel of a car, he would have only…