"Big Girls Don’t Cry" sung by Fergie is the newest song on my singing list. It is a girl who sees the value in sharing something special with someone special for a time. Knowing that the time comes to an end and finding the strength to move on to concentrate on herself and her life again even if it takes some adjusting to. Why can’t we all love this way? Realizing that it is within us to deal with our needs and not thrusting the responsibilities of our needs on someone else? Relationships have become so much about emotional needs and dependence rather than just connecting with someone. Can’t we rise above that? In the song, she feels real emotions. The song implies that the passion is real and so is the loss. She misses him but she needs to think of herself. It’s not about him personally, it’s about her personally. And it’s not easy but to me there is realism about life and love laced throughout the song. People don’t seek out reality in romanticism; they seek out the fairy tale. When real life doesn’t pan out this way, we think it’s the person. Eh, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. It just isn’t realistic to have those expectations and relationships don’t survive on obligations. Check out these lyrics..everyone should be this mature about letting go.
The smell of your skin lingers on me now
You're probably on your flight back to your home town
I need some shelter of my own protection baby
To be with myself and center, clarityPeace, Serenity
[CHORUS:]
I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you
It's personal, myself and I
We've got some straightenin' out to do
And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket
But I've got to get a move on with my life
It's time to be a big girl now
And big girls don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry
The path that I'm walking I must go alone
I must take the baby steps 'til I'm full grown, full grown
Fairytales don't always have a happy ending, do they?
And I foresee the dark ahead if I stay
[CHORUS]
Like the little school mate in the school yard
We'll play jacks and uno cards
I'll be your best friend and you'll be my Valentine
Yes you can hold my hand if you want to
'Cause I want to hold yours too
We'll be playmates and lovers and share our secret worlds
But it's time for me to go home
It's getting late, dark outside
I need to be with myself and center, clarity
Peace, Serenity
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Summer is over..
It's September already. Summer is over and I find myself looking forward to fall. Mind you fall in California is not too much of a change and we are still feeling summer weather but it's really time for a change. Time to feel a chill in the air and put on some warm sweaters and drink warm drinks. I guess being an east coast girl and loving change (LIKE I DO!), it's always welcome to feel the freshness of a new season. Okay, it's also a time to get ambition back and let the laid back vacation like attitude of summer go. I guess I'm feeling inspired. To push in business, creativity, and just overall live life differently come this fall. For some reason, the change in season inspires change in general for me. I don't know why. It just seems like an opportunity to seize. Silly me.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Promise
I started this blog back on Christmas and I have been lousy at keeping it up...oh how I miss writing. I promise...to myself and you, my friends to keep up better! Sending out love to you all, hope all is well in your world!
Nostalgia
Just a quick few words to say that nostalgia is one of the most comforting things there is. Everyone knows we can't go back but nostalgia is the memories we've made accompanied by feeling the actual feelings again that we had at that moment the memory was being made. A huge nostalgic trigger is music. Another may be smell or certain places revisited. How amazing is it that we get to DO that??? Nostalgia envelopes us like a cozy blanket taking us out of our present briefly in order to appreciate the past, to ponder for a few moments sort of in reverent manner. I am so grateful for having moments in my life that bring on such positivism and peace when reflecting back on them...tune in soon for my ramblings on gratitude! LOL...
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Funny shit about people in New England
Funny shit about people in New England
My cousin had this on his blog and I just had to post it too...too funny!! Thanks, C!
If you dont live in new england you probally will not get it. Enjoy!
Forget Rednecks ..here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about NewEnglanders...
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping it will swim by, you might live in New England.
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot in the nation, and Boston gets more snow than any other major city in the US, you live inNew England.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in New England.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you live in New England.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don'twork there, you live in New England.
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in NewEngland.
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England.
And, you know you are a New Englander when: "Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
You install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked.
You carry jumpers in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how to use them.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
The speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you!
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
My cousin had this on his blog and I just had to post it too...too funny!! Thanks, C!
If you dont live in new england you probally will not get it. Enjoy!
Forget Rednecks ..here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about NewEnglanders...
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping it will swim by, you might live in New England.
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot in the nation, and Boston gets more snow than any other major city in the US, you live inNew England.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in New England.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you live in New England.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don'twork there, you live in New England.
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in NewEngland.
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England.
And, you know you are a New Englander when: "Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
You install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked.
You carry jumpers in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how to use them.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
The speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you!
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
Monday, January 15, 2007
A Song For Tonight
I'm learning a new song right now. For those of you who don't know me very well...singing is my biggest passion. I do it for me and in no public arena and it is the most satisfying feeling to belt out the words of a kick ass fast song or a heart wrenching ballad depending on my mood. Being a person who keeps her emotions often reeled in and is the queen of control...it's my way of letting go. It's the one way, I can let go...let go all the way. I get to experience the emotions by singing it even if it is not something I've ever been through. I guess the way an actor feels a character they portray. There have been many times when I have been depressed or angry and really the best friend for me to turn to is my microphone. An hour or so of pouring all of me into a set of songs and I'm a new person.
Tonight's song is "Lay Down My Life" by the timeless queen of written song, Carole King. Have you heard this song? The version I'm immersed in is just Carole and her piano. The power and emotion she packs into this love song left me speechless the first time I heard it. I had the pleasure of hearing this song for the first time LIVE at the Greek Theater during her Living Room tour in 2004. Every time I listen to it since that night, the power and emotion of that performance and the song's meaning hit me. Tonight I decided that I need to add it to my personal singing set.
It's a raw depiction of a love, a love that feels so right though it is wrong. It is amazing when love can exist so strong and cause people to have no control over their hearts sometimes against the odds. Just sharing a love like that binds them together forever from the experience even if they never see each other again. Think about that, love can be that powerful. Singing the song makes me feel immersed in the power of that kind of love, a love that knows no limits, no bounds, just is. No matter what.
Tonight's song is "Lay Down My Life" by the timeless queen of written song, Carole King. Have you heard this song? The version I'm immersed in is just Carole and her piano. The power and emotion she packs into this love song left me speechless the first time I heard it. I had the pleasure of hearing this song for the first time LIVE at the Greek Theater during her Living Room tour in 2004. Every time I listen to it since that night, the power and emotion of that performance and the song's meaning hit me. Tonight I decided that I need to add it to my personal singing set.
It's a raw depiction of a love, a love that feels so right though it is wrong. It is amazing when love can exist so strong and cause people to have no control over their hearts sometimes against the odds. Just sharing a love like that binds them together forever from the experience even if they never see each other again. Think about that, love can be that powerful. Singing the song makes me feel immersed in the power of that kind of love, a love that knows no limits, no bounds, just is. No matter what.
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