Flippin’ the Word

Noticing is hard, especially when what you notice bothers. It’s been really hard for me, this noticing thing, because so much of what bothers me gets brushed aside as insignificant, and I’m branded as nit-picky and critical. So, I’ve tried to curb some of my more nuanced observations on this site, but I’m bringing them back, because another thing I’m noticing is that people dismiss because they agree and that might mean they’re nit-picky too.

What I noticed today is so seemingly nit-picky that it’s based on capitalization in a song lyric. I’m obsessed with Sheryl Crow’s new song “Love is Free,” which she says on her site is an ode to Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the city’s ”very spiritually based” citizens. You’d think, then, that in such a spiritually-charged song, the word God would be capitalized. It isn’t, but the word Cadillac is.