Between Jupiter and Stewart County

Years ago before the advent of cell phones, dare I say this because it really ages me, yeah anyway, before cell phones there was a song which made reckon to the crooner being… “caught between the Moon and New York City.” At that time this lyric was considered to be imagery at its finest, I mean who gets caught between the Moon and New York City? What an impossible situation conjuring up a myriad of possibilities this was, it must have taken a truly gifted lyricist to think up this hook. Impressive!

Fast forward, oh wait a minute we don’t do that anymore either…skip to the next track, next century and I am speaking to my cousin in Florida and he mentions that he is somewhere between Jupiter and Stewart County. Right then it strikes me that prior to cell phones if one were to be using such a directional in speech, one would either have to be on a pay phone, writing a jingle or scoring a hit song. Further to that thought, now if there is a nightclub or diner or any blip on the map called the moon, it becomes quite possible to be caught between there and New York City. As it was then. Therefore, maybe it is not the span of the world that has gotten smaller but the reach of my imagination that has gotten wider.