Only now, after owning Peter Gabriel’s album Up for eighteen years and having listened to it, conservatively, dozens and possibly a hundred times, did I notice the blurred image in the background.

My eyes, from the moment of purchase, were on the falling (rising?) droplets. Today, listening to the album for the first time in a while, the album art came up on the player in a thumbnail. And, not catching it in the first place back in 2002, I thought “Wait. Is that Peter Gabriel’s face?”

Indeed it is. A later remastered version with a zoomed-back image made this even more obvious.

No particular wisdom to offer here. I felt obliged, after not posting for a while, to share my delight and shame at realizing something I probably should have gotten three U.S. Presidents ago.