Sunday, July 13, 2025
Time: 11:45 AM
Song: All I Want is You
Artist: Barry Louis Polisar
Mode of Consumption: Playing over the speakers at Blumen Gardens in Sycamore.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5sIBOrRLBI6ypREdEPj2wQ?si=3b8d07f7a95744ae
I suppose it’s fair to say that I’ve changed over the years. I am not sure if I would have wanted to drive over an hour to a place like Blumen Gardens to look at crafts and plants twenty years ago. Today, I did it without a second thought. It didn’t bother me to go, and I enjoyed looking at the wares even if I wasn’t going to buy any of it.
Jodi and her mom enjoyed it, and that’s all that matters.
Well, I have to admit that it wasn’t an entirely a self-sacrifice of a Sunday. I had arranged to sell a tote of Victrola records to a guy from St. Charles.
He had contacted me a week or so earlier, and explained that he had an old Victrola and was always glad to look through a lot like this to see if there was anything he could play. We discovered during our conversation that we were both graduates of Northern Illinois University. He finished about two years after I did. It’s entirely possible we passed each other in the halls or on campus all those years ago.
After Blumen Gardens, we met him in the parking lot at Portillo’s. He was a tall, skinny man with glasses and well-kept hair. I was in shorts and the Jason Isbell t-shirt I had bought the night before.
He picked through the box a little. Pointed to a thick one, and said this would play on the machine made by Thomas Edison only. Edison was ahead of his time, making technology that only worked with other technology that he had produced. Apple must have been taking notes.
He was happy to take the tote of my hands. I was happy to be rid of it. It was heavy and took up space in our basement. More room for me to buy more vinyl that I am interested in.
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