Can music save your mortal soul?
“Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.”
A Course in Miracles
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Random Considerations
I mentioned to someone the other day that I had arthritis, and she looked at me and said, “But you’re so young!” As if age has anything to do with it. And it was one of those times where I had to walk away and realize some people just don’t get it.
Some days I’d like to tell everyone I meet I’m hurting. I just want to get it out there. Arthritis and bursitis and fibromyalgia are those kinds of conditions that other people can’t see. But I know it’s there. I can feel it. I can feel my fingers swelling up at the end of the day, but no one knows. I don’t tell people every time it hurts.
And that’s when self care becomes so important. I know what my body feels. I don’t need other people’s opinions about how I feel.
I have to say, after having every test in the book and physical therapy and all of it, I still have the same condition. I decided not to take the anti-depressants years ago that doctors wanted to put me on. I like to watch zombies, but not to be a zombie.
It isn’t about age, folks. It’s about swelling, and pain.
What helps me is listening to music, and walking my dogs. It helps me to watch my favorite TV shows, to read, and to check out and go to a happy place once in a while. It helps to lay on my heating pad. And yet, the swelling and the pain are never far away. I don’t remember life in a pre-arthritis kind of world.
It depends on my mood what kind of music is the best medicine. Sometimes it’s classical, and sometimes it’s Offspring’s “Bad Habit”. My taste is all over the place. Sometimes some NIN can be incredibly relaxing, loud.
And I saw “The Hunger Games” today. My God, it’s brilliant. I cried and cried and then I cried some more. That 2 1/2 hour movie had me riveted to my seat. My daughter and I couldn’t look away, and neither could the audience. You could hear a pin drop. I’m really happy I got to see it on opening weekend.
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Random Considerations
The sun is setting over my neighbor’s roof. It’s peeking through the tree, still devoid of any color, but hopeful. And tomorrow is Saturday and I’m going to see “The Hunger Games”. When it comes to being jazzed about seeing any film, this is the big one for me. Suzanne Collins has crafted a dystopian future that parallels the world as it is. I have to wonder if that art reflecting reality or reality reflecting art has made “The Hunger Games” books as popular as they are.
I’m praying for Trayvon Miller tonight. I stand in solidarity with his parents, and all parents and I pray justice is served. Real justice. Not carnival justice. Not sweeping it under the rug and out the back door justice. Not a shell game kind of justice, you know… pay no attention to what this left hand is doing. I pray for his parent’s hearts.
And the sun is now behind the chimney and blazing no more.
But the light of love never dies.
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Scorpio
You know how it is when you see an actor in a certain role, and then think of them as that character? When they play another character, you’re kinda wierded out? That was me with Andy Robinson playing the Scorpio killer in 1971′s “Dirty Harry”. Anything I saw him in after that I was forever tarnished by the frightening man on the rooftops of San Francisco.
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