boston

Yesterday I had a moment of serendipity, where I could feel two worlds collide over half a decade.

It was my schools talent show', and I was there to support my performers and the journalism students who were covering the show.

Toward the end one of my students got up on stage with a flame blue Takamine guitar. She was joined by another girl I didn't recognize on the piano. The song stopped me dead for a moment: "Boston," by Augustana. I hadn't really heard much about them since the days after they performed at my brother's house in Cal Poly, during his 21st birthday.

I knew they had gotten some kind of record deal and were almost famous. I looked around, eerily, as some students sang along along--especially as I remember I was in the vast red capital in the middle of Brazil.