Music

Music has always had a profound impact on my life, moods, and outlook. I can remember sitting on my bed  when I was in High School mourning the loss of another boyfriend and listening to U2 or Toad The Wet Sprocket. It's hard to explain but it helped me feel better. Music has always been able to do that for me.

Now I understand that music doesn't always have the same effect on different people but I'm grateful to know that it does have an effect on me. I always know that when I'm feeling sad, mad, funny, crazy, or whatever I'm feeling, I know there is going to be a song that is going to go right along with how I'm feeling.

I love being with my friends and having an awesome song come on the radio and cranking it up in my car and singing along. It's amazing. I love hearing the song that my hubby and I danced to at our reception come on. It takes me back and brings back all of those feelings again. I look at him for a moment, the way I used to when we were just starting out together.

I love hearing the Louis Armstrong song that I used to listen to when I would rock my babies. It has such an optimistic message that is so sweet and tender. Music has a way of taking me back to memories , places, times, and people that i don't think about all of the time. I love that. I don't hold on to material items. I never have. I rented my wedding dress.

But I do hold on to music. Old and new and I love it. Always.