11/27/10 Thankful
Today I am thankful for music. I have always loved all kinds of music. I have already mentioned how music has played such a role in keeping me sane during this time. I am thankful how music can change my mood in an instant. I am thankful how music can inspire me. I am thankful how music can evoke so many emotions. I am thankful for the songs that seem to be written just for me. If you walked into my house during the day, you would almost always hear music playing.
I love this quote from Ray Charles:
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
I, too, feel like now more than ever that music is a necessity for me. I consider music to be an integral piece of my treatment plan.
Here are some of the top songs that have meant a lot to me in the past year for a variety of reasons. (It’s a pretty random list, I know):
- The Sunshine Song (Jason Mraz)
- Let It Be (The Beatles)
- Lots of Counting Crows including A Long December
- Ordinary Day and Lucky Me (Great Big Sea)
- Fix You (Coldplay)
- I Will Show You Love (Kendall Payne)
- Fight Outta You (Ben Harper)
- Her Diamonds (Rob Thomas)
- Not Afraid (Eminem
- Fighter (Christina Aguilera
- Gravity (John Mayer
- Just Breathe (Pearl Ja
- Pig, One Sweet World, Grey Street (Dave Mathews Band
- Man In the Mirror (Michael Jackson)
- Avalanche (Chris Trapper
- Jesus Take the Wheel (Carrie Underwood
- Lots of Ray Lamontagne
- Lots of Jimmy Buffett
I’m sure I will think of a million more later…