Music in search of words

Music, the sounds that bring emotion to words.  It can be like a taste, a smell, a smile, a heartbreak. It can create a marker for time, it is a memory.

You can tell an entire story in one song, or a lifetime in many.  I find that no matter what I am doing, I always fall to music.  I consistantly relate a song to a person I know, knew, wanted to know.  To a place I was happy, had my heart broken, lived by myself, caught a smile of a sweet person.  It is my background, my foreground, my grounding… hmmm I used that word in my valentine’s posting about love.  Yes music is grounding to me.

What song reminds you of your mother, of your first day at college, of you first kiss, your last breakup?  What song takes you back on that vacation, that cruise, that trip to the beach?  For me… there is no one song that defines my life, it is a waterfall of sounds and words that make up what I am, how I got here, and where I want to go. 

So the next time you hear a song, let your mind wander, take you back to a place that makes you smile or capture a snapshot of time, with a song.

Hugs and poofs Holli

~ by Holli Hollwood on March 12, 2009.