Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I'm listening to mixes my younger two kids made for me many years ago. Lots of Magnetic Fields, Springsteen, and others. My older daughter put a lot of her music on my Spotify when I would go up to see her. My older son gives me classical CDs and some jazz. My collection has been greatly enriched by the four of them. When they were little, we used to dance to the Bangledesh album or the Beatles or Leon Russell. They all love to dance, and so do I. When I first dated my husband, we would get a sitter and go to shows like Joy of Cooking, Old and in the Way and Asleep at the Wheel. Later we took the teens to see The Eurythmics and Heart and Fleetwood Mac. Tnen we got too old, except for seeing Green Day because their manager was a close friend of ours. Now I often forget to listen to music, and I don't know why. I'm trying more these last couple of weeks, and I listened to a 5 CD set of Bach (piano) the other day. It was perfectly compatible with reading. Certain CDs remind me of certain events in the past, like "Les Miserables". I once listened to it after a huge fight with my husband, and it swoops me back to that afternoon, but I also have exhilerating memories of seeing it with all the kids on Broadway, and seeing the touring show here with my book club which had just finished reading the thousand page book in four months. The Everly Brothers bring me back to my first boyfriend, dancing and sweaty and full of awakening body parts. I could go on and on. I'm going to keep reminding myself to include music more. It makes me feel more alive that reading or watching a movie.