Crystal Blue Persuasion

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Okay, I gotta admit. I don't typically experience nostalgia for Tommy James & The Shondells.

And yet, when I finished editing this image, the caption that came to mind was "Crystal Blue Persuasion" – but I wasn’t really sure why! So, I checked out the lyrics and found optimism in them. So, I posted the pic with that caption.

The song as an interesting genesis, and when I read the Wikipedia entry for it, I thought the inspiration for this caption was serendipity.

Here's part of that entry:

"James was actually inspired by his reading of the Book of Ezekiel where it speaks of the Blue Shekinah Light which represented the presence of the Almighty God and the Books of Isaiah and Revelation where it speaks of a bright future of a brotherhood of mankind living in peace and harmony."

...and here are the lyrics:

Look over yonder
What do you see?
The sun is a'rising
Most definitely

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