This song, written by Peter Sturges in the mid 1960’s, captures that conflict suffered by most of us in our early years: the conflict between the freedom of rollin’ and the tug of love.  

The soul of love is commitment, a unilateral pledge by one to another, purest when made with knowledge of that  which one knows to be one’s own, yet best achieved by overcoming self in favor of the other.

Long ago December, a bleak Alaska sky. I hopped a midnight flight to Anchorage arriving in the early morning and went to the YMCA to get a bed.  It was the darkest part of the winter which meant that the sun was rising in the mid-morning and setting mid-afternoon.