We'd be lost without it.....

Hello my fantastic warrior goddess,
You're such a perfect and wonderful little baby. You run like clockwork for me and you only fuss when you want something or need sleep. You sleep from 7:30 to 7:30 and I swear you smile at everyone. I'm so lucky to have you and I cannot possibly express to you, there are not words sufficient, not worthy enough to properly describe how much I look forward to all of our adventures. Tonight in the midst of you I was able to watch Glee. I am positive one day you and I will be able to watch this show together but tonight's episode prompted me to write you about music in this here little (ok maybe not so little....but you know) entry.

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." -Plato-

"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to soul"

"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Without music, life would be an error." -Nietzsche-

"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down." -Virgil Thomson-

I can only pray that you will learn to appreciate music in all of it's glory for it is something that is beyond powerful. Music and words go hand in hand for me.Maybe music is what paved the way for my obsession with words. Music was my gateway drug if you will. I can remember going to Lovett Elementary, the school that forever changed my life. One day I will tell you all about Lovett, but for now .....I can remember going to that school, a school that placed a strong emphasis on nurturing our artistic side in order to enhance our intellectual and emotional growth and development. I played the violin and the flute once a week and I remember once a week going to see Mrs. Evans my choir teacher and we'd play instruments and sing our little hearts out. "When John Henry was just a little baby, sitting on his fathers knee...." I loved that song....man oh man ... It was there I learned about not just music all people should know about here but I learned about music from all over the world."Dreidel, dreidel I made it of clay....." And we'd put on several shows a year ...I was in nearly all of them, ever year. Let me see if I can't locate pictures and post them here for you so we never lose them and you can see what mami did and was part of when she was little) I absolutely lived for that stuff Athena, I still do! I remember being Mozart's sister, Nannerl I still remember this part of my monolgue: "Hellooooooo everyone Nannerl is MY name and playing the clavichord is MY claim to fame...." wow. What a trip, and I was at the cardboard clavichord we'd made and had little boys dressed as mice (The musical was "Of Mice and Men) underneath my instrument, both of whom I had a huuuuuuge crush on! Travis and Zach....why do I still remember their names and the line from that play?

Miss "Nannerl" Mozart looking oh so sexy!! Wait til you see your mami as her!

  I will tell you why I remember every single show I was a part of and very small details of those very early times in my life Because that was MY music at the time, it was the music of my life. My dear Athena, real music, good music is TIMELESS. It imprints your soul and leaves a mark that you couldn't possibly get rid of, though I doubt anyone would want to. Music unites people in a way that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING else can. Music has been known to creep under ones skin and lodge itself in every last curve and crevice of your entire being. It illuminates even the darkest days and makes even the largest pain subside. Music is all of the things those very beautiful people up there said it is. There has never been a moment in my life that music didn't somehow soothe my soul. I can literally remember things in my life solely because of the music at the time. And that's not to say popular music at the time, but MY music at the time. allllllll kinds of music don't get me wrong. But classical, Athena, that is WHERE IT'S AT! Jazz comes in a very, very, very close second. But classical, it never fails when I listen to classical I'm just completely swept away to magnanimous worlds where what happens is up to me and the way the strings stimulate my synapses, the woodwinds work their wonderful wooing magic, the brass benevolently bestows me with beautiful resonating notes, and the way the percussion never ceases to give the pieces the perfect proportion of peculiar panache something about all of that infiltrates every pore of my body and uplifts me in a way that lets my imagination run away with me. You know what I take it back, classical is not the only music that matters. All music matters and is equally important. As long as makes you feel good and alive then hey whatever floats your boat. But classical is for me the foundation for all other music. It is the most beautiful and the most moving. We'll talk more music later but for now just know one very simple truth, without music....well we'd be nothing, we'd be lost. So here's hoping that music points you in some very beautiful directions, allows you to experience many wondrous moments and connects you to an immense number of special, magical, and creatively rich individuals throughout your life as it has done in mine thus far. I love you.