November 15: Music (and Dancing)!

Today and everyday, I am thankful for music.

From John Legend to Shakira, from Eminem to India Arie, I listen to it all. The reason I picked music and dancing for today is because I am SO unbelievably exhausted but once I plug in my headphones and get any beat going, I am recharged somehow. Right now, I am sitting at Mugby Junction, a coffee shop, and I am tapping my foot and bobbing my head to each of these songs. AND for the past month I have been trying to make a new playlist of songs that I feel are "good for the soul"... or at least, good for my soul.

 This is the screen shot of what I came up with for my playlist. 

Video by India Arie makes me take a deep breath and start bobbin my head. But the song Stuck Like Glue by the country band, Sugarland will not let me feet stay still; this song comes on and I want to get up and dance around my room like a fool and just smile. And Glee's version of Keep Holding On is just reassuring, that other people could be struggling with their positive outlook on life and that we will all make it through. Finally, although this song isn't on my playlist YET, this is the song that my friend played for me when I came to her in tears (Here's why). It is a collaboration between Jason Mraz and James Morrison and it's called Details in the Fabric and its just what I need.  (Thanks Kels)

Music, like poetry, is something that everyone can listen to and interpret in their own way and I have interpreted all these songs as reaching out to me in someway or another. I have grown up with music playing throughout the house while the family cleaned or was just hanging out... and although I have really no idea what this song means (nor do I want to know... because it might ruin the memory)  La Bamba always makes me think of the home I grew up in.

THANK YOU MUSIC (and Dancing)!!!