Sisterhood & Brotherhood Shine

It was a time when family was really close, when love was brightest as the sun apeared high in the sky every single summer that we kids grew up at TBC. 1979 was the end of a decade of many changes for me in and around the formative years which David Cassidy made an impact. The crush later in my teenage years was not exclusive for many many girls my age back then shared the same crush. But with this song, and his music in general, I shared a special relationship with 'Keith Partridge". This for me was good time music and the kind of stuff you felt work through you in a positive way.

The 'hallelujah' part always puts a certain religious connotation to 'light' and when in the episode of PF when light was scarce and energy was drained from their neighborhood, the younger kids felt like there was absolutely nothing to do if television or radio was not working. I remember our power outages and how I felt alone but not scared, certainly not worried the television or radio wouldn't work, but worried if I would hear anything in the silence. I suppose you could feelalone,well not completely alone, you had each other and conversation and a way to create a fire. But that was on television, what about in real life?

Not much different. Mom made an outage seem like a vacation on a tropical island, she told us use your imaginations, find light from sunshine making its way into a dark tunnel and have fun while darkness prevails ! The older sisters and brothers of the young ones at the bungalow colony comforted but also kept talking, entertaining, keeping the thoughts that fear might entice, away. Someone even pulled a guitar from a guitar bag and strummed a few chords. It was easy to feel better when music penetrated the darkness and the firelight danced on the pearl and ivory handle of the guitar that strummed a 'keith partridge' favorite of mine by someone who knew fun music was the way tokeep fear at bay !