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In 1987, the journalist Larry Katz spoke with Christine McVie, who was at home in Los Angeles. He asked the kind of question most of us would like to put to someone we admire. The stars of two or three decades before were still working in their fifties and sixties. Could she see herself doing this at that age?
She didn't hesitate. She saw no reason to stop, she said; it was her life. Then came the line above, and, if I'm not mistaken, a faint smile as she added that she could probably figure out something else. At the moment, she had no plan to stop at all.
Years later, Katz remembered her as the quiet one. Stevie Nicks floated about the stage, and Christine sat off to the side behind the keyboard. She had written a good share of the songs people still sing.
I keep coming back to how plainly she said it.
No promise, no speech,
just the admission that the work was the middle of her,
and that she wasn't afraid of whatever might come after.
What is the one thing you'd struggle to imagine your life without,
and have you given it room lately?
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