Dear Reader,
I've been spending time taking a look back over the past year, and focusing on some personal changes I'd like to make in the new year. Making a list of New Year's Resolutions doesn't ever work for me. I need to put on some music and spend some time writing about the year gone by.
Yes, for me, there's magic in the music. It stops me from editing my thoughts as I write them down. The music takes me up, it takes me down. I write about joyful things that come to mind and I smile, and then I write about the times I cried. Not happy tears, but tears filled with worry and fear, and the night when I started crying and feared I might never stop.
When I feel in the middle and can't seem to get grounded, I turn on a song that helps me feel whatever emotion I'm trying to get in touch with. It's not unusual for me to write for hours listening to the same two songs over and over again, because I never disconnect from their inspiration.
But for the past two years, since I first hooked up my new computer, I haven't had a speaker, so listening to music was a problem. Bluetooth wasn't connecting like it should, so I decided that doing without was an easy solution. But today, I finally have a speaker that actually works with my computer. The happiness is now pumping via iTunes, through a bar sitting behind my computer screen.
It seems absurd that I waited so long to fix the problem. So instead of trying to make big changes in the new year, I'm reminding myself how making little changes can make life easier. How a simple little thing that I don't change, because I think "it's good enough" can irritate me every day.
Writing and listening to music makes me wonder what other things in my life I've chosen to take the "it's good enough" route. What would happen if I decided to tackle some more of the seemingly itty, bitty, little things? It would change my life in a huge, big, enormous, gigantic, joyful way!
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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