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The Wealth of Knowledge

This weekend, I was mulling over my next article, but I wanted to reach out to those reading my blog. Topics come to me from listening to news, reading books and articles, and many times, music ignites a thought. This time, I would like the audience to ignite a thought or two.

What about you? Is there a topic or thought that you would like me to write about? I would like to pursue topics that my audience is interested it.

Please share in the comments any topics you would like to hear about. The pursuit of truth always continues, and we must persevere, persisting in the hunt.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. -Thomas Jefferson

I look forward to your responses!

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Give Me the Beat, Boy, and Free My Soul…

For my entire life, music has been an important part of who I am. I grew up with a small briefcase style record player, tossing aside the kid’s records that my parents bought me and swiped their (much better) albums. ELO, The Beatles, Barry Manilow, and Ted Nugent were among several that I would put on headphones and let myself be carried away.

I have found that as I am older, music has become a type of therapy and a form of meditation.  A song can comfort during sadness or help release anger that is boiling up inside. Another way to use it is to bring you back to earlier times in your life. It is like time travel, but without the DeLorean. Nothing sparks a memory like a song. I can sometimes capture a feeling I had as a kid with the rift of an old song or a relevant lyric. I believe it was the book, All is Quiet on the Western Front, where the soldier tried to recapture memories and feelings before the war by reading through books he had read in the past. Unfortunately, he was unable to capture those feelings of comfort and his past. It is music that can do this!

Music is not just entertainment or background noise. It is a catalyst that can help an individual process emotions, memories, or feelings. It can bring back good memories but can also bring back the sad. Even through those sad memories, we can begin to heal and learn. Use that sadness to strengthen your resolve!

I am music,  and I write the songs.