Episode XXXVII: I have seen too much (you haven't seen enough)

Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
that savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:
so bitter--death is hardly more severe!
But to retell the good discovered there,
I'll also tell the other things I saw.
-Dante Alighieri, "Inferno"

I just got back from another island where I met up with some good friends. Hadn't seen any of them in over six months. They're all spread out over the islands here, working for the same organization that I am. All of us will be leaving in the next few months, some of us traveling a bit, but all of us eventually going to the States more or less before the year is out. It was hard to say goodbye to them knowing that the next time I see any of them will be in the States. Regardless of the years that pass, when I think of any of them I will always think of us sitting on some beach that will forever go unseen by anyone else any of us know, talking and laughing with no idea what the time, day, or month is.

Below is the set list from my radio show a week ago. It was a shorter program. I just played the songs I needed to hear and didn't worry about filling the entire hour. I have found overwhelming good here, but I have also seen other things and this show was about those other things. Each song stands for a time in my life here or a specific event, and they're in chronological order.
"Gone" U2
"The Moon" Cat Power
"Idioteque" Radiohead
"Out of My Hands" Dave Matthews Band
"Ashes of American Flags (live)" Wilco
"No Way" Pearl Jam
"See You Soon (live)" Coldplay
"Ain't Talkin'" Bob Dylan