I think just about everyone has a song that brings tears to their eyes. Don’t you?
Such a song often calls to mind an intense memory or feeling for someone we love or have loved. But maybe not.
What about the song that has your eyes filling up and you have no idea why?
This song, Remedy, by The Ambientalist, touches something within me with the very first few chords of the guitar. Every time. But I have no memory associated with this song whatsoever. It just came to me one day, and stopped me in my tracks emotionally.
Do you have a song that does this and you have no idea why? Let us know and feel free to provide a link.
I’m going to do a couple more posts like this on the different ways music affects us as it does. Stay tuned …
Music is a constant in my life. It’s one of the true and reliable consistencies that lifts me up, makes me smile, makes me cry, makes me feel. Always, feel.
This morning was one of those times that music both lifted me up and moved me deeply. We don’t always know why a particular song touches us at any particular time, but I find that it sometimes reaches inside us to say, “Look here. There is something for you to pay attention to.”
What it was for me today was gratitude, so much gratitude, for all the good in my life. So many things are going right, regardless of anything else in the world, and one song helped me truly know that.
When I write or draw or engage in a creative activity that requires me to be fully present, I listen to music that I cannot possibly sing along to. This is often music in the Solfeggio frequencies, Japanese Lo-Fi, Gregorian chant, or something like this song, Weightless. So incredibly beautiful.
** My apologies – this song has been removed by the original uploader to YouTube. I will try and find it again. Or something of equal beauty.
And because it seems apropos, here is a cemetery angel drawing I have not yet shared.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time today creating the meme at the top to also share on IG and FB, scanning the drawing, writing this post, and creating a new header. To be honest, I have other more pressing things to do, but the music drew me in and inspired me, and following where the music leads has never steered me wrong.
Please listen and enjoy Weightless. I hope you, too, are inspired.
Still A Dreamer 