This week has been …. A week…marathon style…
And well I’m quite exhausted so I thought I would take this opportunity to summarize it…. In song
Monday – Eve 6 ‘Inside Out”…
never has a day made me “want to put my tender heart into a blender and watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion” than Monday… the whole day was a catastrophe… let’s leave it at that
Tuesday - Outkast “So fresh, so clean”
– marathon laundry day… 8 loads three hours and then a shopping excursion to buy pants with Brayden… who will happily buy shirts and coats and sweatshirts at the thrift store but is more particular about his pants than the Maestro on Seinfeld…Shopping for pants for him is comparable to water boarding…but it had to be done I had put it off long enough and his last pair were hanging by a thread. I mean that literally… at any moment I was waiting for the police to call me and tell me he was arrested for indecent exposure. But after finally finding the semi perfect “I’ll wear them and not complain” pair of pants and putting on clean pajamas we were both agreed “Ain’t nobody dope as me I’m dressed so fresh and clean… so fresh and so clean clean”
Wednesday - Frank Zappa “Stink foot”…
Bray was gone for a few hours so I decided to surprise him and deep clean his room…. He’s a teenager… he’s a boy…. Enuf said. This song sums up my sentiments on that experience.
Thursday – ZZ TOP “Sharp Dressed Man”
Bray informed me late Wednesday night that he needed a suit for his first debate tournament this weekend. Thank goodness the boy does not mind thrift stores. We perused the aisles of the DI (a Utah thrift store) and found a classic gray suit with suspenders…. The suit could have been pink and he still would have bought it because he wanted the suspenders…. We tried it on it fit and boy does that kid clean up nicely. He even shaved…. Which I was very happy about because he was starting to look like saskwatch and he informed me last Tuesday that next month is “no shave November” which means by December 1st he might be eligible for casting calls if the Sy fy network does any Breaking Dawn “Team Jacob” spin offs
Which lead us to Friday…. Today…..and what other song could I possibly post other than the infamous Rebecca Blacks “Friday”
no song summarizes the deeply felt, intellectual monologue that strings through my subconscious more than this song…. It’s transcendental meaning, it’s philosophical symbolism….the lyrics well they express the words my soul longs to scream but can’t seem to find words for….. Rebecca Black, LOL cats and Justin Bieber are the creative geniuses of this generation…. Yeah …nothing to worry about there.
But on a more serious note…. I did find this quote this morning “She said she usually cried at least once each day, not because she was sad but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short” I don’t know who said it… it was actually a tattoo I came across and well… I pretty much love it….really.
It got me thinking about how much empty space I leave in my life to stop and look at life long enough to realize how beautiful it is. Which led to this post about my week and it’s activities…. It was a Flock of Seagulls week…. “I ran” a lot….
I do that often… life has a way of just intruding into empty space…it pushes it’s way through and convinces me a lot that I HAVE to take care of this or that… But the truth is I don’t….
And there are moments when I get the chance to just soak the world around me in…. I go in sunset spurts where I take time day after day to recognize them and soak in them but then I stop looking up and get caught up looking down at my appointment book, or computer, or calendar, or phone.
I am realizing more and more that if I am going to find time to soak in this beautiful world around me…. And let it seep in deep enough that it wades past all the muck of the daily grind, and my list of to do’s and my sinking swamp of “should’s” and let it reach that silent part of my soul where I can really not just see it but feel it deeply… deep enough to appreciate it… well, I have to be intentional about making that time…
It doesn’t just happen….
But when it does…. That feeling that you get when you look around and really see the world before you…. It usually does make you cry because it is brilliant… and gorgeous… and it’s sort of amazing that we get to taste it every day…
And so I’m hoping… beyond hope that next week… I’ll only have one song for the week… an oldie but a goodie Simon and Garfunkle “Sound of Silence”
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