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November 2009 
What's the most soothing or calming music you know?
Posted on Oct 8th, 2009
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synonym for light
synonym for light
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 08, 2009:
I love that this is the question. I love this question right now.
I have been without a voice for a couple of days - a seeming side affect of having the flu (a mild case in comparison to some around here). today i could not go to work at my 911 job because of a lack of voice. as tink said, "I hate it when I call 911 and a mime answers". that made me laugh (silently).
so, last night I was kind of lonely when adam was at work and I was at home on the sofa with a fever and no voice. farland called to say hi and when I answered she couldn't hear me. I really had to struggle to let her know I was there.
It looked like another lonely night at home with adam at work and saving my weak voice for work tomorrow, when I remembered that I can still type and I can still chat online and I can still listen to music. why did it not occur to me last night that music was still an option? my ears aren't broken? well --- tonight adam went off to work and I fired up my iTunes and I'm listening to Lhasa de Sela now. and it's making me feel amazing --- I'm dancing around in my pjs and singing along in my head and hearing things that I haven't heard before in this music even though I've listened many many times. some of the spanish words mean something to me now, whereas before they were simply gorgeous mysteries. I love listening to music with complexity in the composition and mystery in the lyrics -- particularly music with lyrics in a language I don't speak. as I learn to speak and understand spanish each of these songs changes for me. like solving a puzzle.
as I danced and listened I decided to try to catch up on the laundry. so as I'm folding laundry and putting it away I'm taking out certain articles of clothing to send to the thrift store-- the ones that aren't me anymore and I put some of them on to find out if they are still me or maybe not- and I put on the one in the photo above, thinking it's not really me anymore and then, once it's on, and I'm dancing in it, I think, why not?? it feels different now than last time and I think it must be the music I'm listening to. I decide to keep it, the dress, and to wear it at home when I'm alone and dance and feel beautiful and mysterious.
lhasa de sela radio on last.fm
lhasa biography on last.fm
I know I posted a lhasa video last time I popped up here, but I think that's okay. each time I listen to her music I hear something new, inside of something comfortable and familiar, and each time I try to find a link to post here, I learn something new about her.
it's her album, "the living road" that I am most enamoured of.
gracias por leer.
xoxo
~d
I have been without a voice for a couple of days - a seeming side affect of having the flu (a mild case in comparison to some around here). today i could not go to work at my 911 job because of a lack of voice. as tink said, "I hate it when I call 911 and a mime answers". that made me laugh (silently).
so, last night I was kind of lonely when adam was at work and I was at home on the sofa with a fever and no voice. farland called to say hi and when I answered she couldn't hear me. I really had to struggle to let her know I was there.
It looked like another lonely night at home with adam at work and saving my weak voice for work tomorrow, when I remembered that I can still type and I can still chat online and I can still listen to music. why did it not occur to me last night that music was still an option? my ears aren't broken? well --- tonight adam went off to work and I fired up my iTunes and I'm listening to Lhasa de Sela now. and it's making me feel amazing --- I'm dancing around in my pjs and singing along in my head and hearing things that I haven't heard before in this music even though I've listened many many times. some of the spanish words mean something to me now, whereas before they were simply gorgeous mysteries. I love listening to music with complexity in the composition and mystery in the lyrics -- particularly music with lyrics in a language I don't speak. as I learn to speak and understand spanish each of these songs changes for me. like solving a puzzle.
as I danced and listened I decided to try to catch up on the laundry. so as I'm folding laundry and putting it away I'm taking out certain articles of clothing to send to the thrift store-- the ones that aren't me anymore and I put some of them on to find out if they are still me or maybe not- and I put on the one in the photo above, thinking it's not really me anymore and then, once it's on, and I'm dancing in it, I think, why not?? it feels different now than last time and I think it must be the music I'm listening to. I decide to keep it, the dress, and to wear it at home when I'm alone and dance and feel beautiful and mysterious.
lhasa de sela radio on last.fm
lhasa biography on last.fm
I know I posted a lhasa video last time I popped up here, but I think that's okay. each time I listen to her music I hear something new, inside of something comfortable and familiar, and each time I try to find a link to post here, I learn something new about her.
it's her album, "the living road" that I am most enamoured of.
gracias por leer.
xoxo
~d
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You crazy Dawn, you can't have the flu and be feeling that good! Maybe it's just laryngitis or something. Maybe a blessing in disguise so you can really get into and understand her music. I couldn't dance right now if some one held a gun on me. But I've been cutting grass for the last 3 hours and that's understandable. I do hope you're feeling better soon. I hope to be feeling as good as you by tomorrow!
Best wishes, I hope you are feeling better.
oh, but I really did have the flu. today I am feeling much better, but I wasn't dancing every day. I had a fever and sore throat and chills and earaches and ….. the list goes on and I wasn't even able to type or to remember how much I love music, for a couple of days, let alone dance. but no thing is permanent, not even the seemingly everlasting flu, and I am becoming well again. so why not dance?? :-)
cutting grass for 3 hours?? you have a lot of grass.
there will be no more grass cutting here this year. winter is upon us in our high mountain valley. :-)
thank you for your well wishes sandi and george too. :-)
~d
Have you listened to Monica Salmaso or Cesaria Evora or LIla Downs? All also wonder-full.
I love Lhasa de Sela.
Sending blessings of restoration your way.
Oh oh oh, and Adriana Calcanhotto… Devolva-Me is awesome especially.
Y Joao Gilberto tambien.
o, y Susana Baca.
I'm so sorry, Dawn, I should not have made light of your dancing, it is a fine thing when you finally get to feeling that much better. I will send healing and restful thoughts to your mountain home, so that you'll be sparkling again soon!
Oh, I would love to make light of your dancing! Light and dancing, they go together. Now go listen to Susana Baca. And dance.
sandi, don't be sorry. it's fine. you made me laugh. ;-)
I'm at work today, not dancing much. trying not to lose my voice again. drinking lots of tea. thank you all for your well wishes. :-)
tink (bella), I have been finding out about some of these you mentioned because of last.fm and pandora.com. I love putting in one artist that I adore and having them play some others that are similarly wonderful!
I will definitely be listening to more of these you've mentioned. and dancing again soon too. :-)
xo
~d
Isn't life strange, as the Moody Blues just told me?! When we are down in the dumps that music can enter our brains and bodies and light a fire in our feet! Feel better!
Well, Nature is having the last laugh at me today, my eyes are swollen like water balloons and look horrible. I am already dealing with the Ragweed, but I burned a brush pile full of old limbs and vines ( ?) and stuff that came down in the storms. Now I'm thinking poison oak or something in the smoke has caused them to look like frog belly's and I'm not talking skinny frogs, either. Glad you're up and feeling better.
oh sandi! I hope YOU feel better SOON!
Geo - thanks and how's the shoulder doing?
Oh, sheesh, we had the same thing! A week ago Saturday I couldn't speak, I could only squeak. and whisper. I had fever, chills, headaches and a sore throat. I'm still coughing but feeling much better, I hope you do too. My newest blog post is about a realization I had about earthships and nutrition and how all that came together after my week long fever was over.
I'll go read it staightaway! I am feeling much better, thanks. and having some realizations or maybe ?rememberizations? (haha) of my own this week, which I shall hopefully post a blog about shortly. something about autumn is renewing to me. :-)
Your blog was like a musical 911 for me today, Dawn. I've been feeling really rough, and it reminded me to turn off the news (which I'd only recently gone back to listening to) and go back to my i-Pod. The healing power of music is underestimated. It's the best antidepressant I know … and with the least side effects.
Hope your voice heals soon. Peace, Otter
I'm back to my usual noisy self. :-) I totally agree - the healing power of music is way underestimated.
glad you're feeling better sweetie! I myself am wrestling with silence, or at least examining the noise levels in my life and trying to figure out how ratchet it down some.
con amor,
lil