Thursday, July 24, 2025
Time: 4:03 PM
Song: Girl in the War
Artist: Josh Ritter
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle while driving to Red Wing, Minnesota.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2XQ6xhvd1q5JQyY21F198g?si=a87a42ec922343cd
We are driving through Stewartville, Minnesota, a town that I’ve never been to before so far as I know.
We are listening to this song, a song that I must have at least sampled once in order to put it into my digital library. I remember the album. I bought it at sale sometime over the last year or two. I know I listened to the album at least once. I think I even kept it.
But, I don’t specifically remember this song. I like it, and I like that it’s playing while we are traveling for vacation.
There’s nothing very distinctive about Stewartville, at least not driving through the main drag on Route 63. It has the usual collection of fast food chains and shopping centers. The truly unique features of the town likely tucked away on side streets.
So, now the two – the town and the song - will be connected in time and place for me. Although, always as passersby to something more special.
Stewartville was just another town on the map. Not the destination, just something that had to be endured. We were headed to a weekend in Red Wing, Minnesota, where we would be spending time with Jodi’s mother and her brother and sister-in-law.
As for the song, it stood out in that moment because it was different. It just probably won’t ever become a song that tops any my personal lists. I was glad to get to a song I knew the words to that I could sing along with.
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