Denver Airport and John Denver

Everytime I am at Denver airport, I think about John Denver and his songs. I met him when he was the first artist from the West to do a multi-city tour of Mainland China, in October 1992. I remembered someone told me at the lobby of a hotel that the person I smiled to and who smiled back to me was John Denver. I knew his song "Country Roads,"... I later heard he was very surprised that the song was famous in China.

So I was in Denver airport yesterday and I thought about John Denver again. And this song:

It is funny how you sound as if you're right next door
when you're really half a world away
I just can't seem to find the words I'm looking for
to say the things that I want to say
I can't remember when I felt so close to you
it's almost more than I can bear
And though I seem a half a million miles from you
you are in my heart and living there

And the moon and the stars are the same ones you see
it's the same old sun up in the sky
And your voice in my ear is like heaven to me
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