For the Record – Catch Me Outside
I need a Babel fish. IYKYK. But seriously, I could have used one tonight in my ear to translate what I heard as I heard it because I am almost 99% positive that my downstairs neighbor was flirting with me this evening.
Music Roulette 5 ~ Smells Like Midlife
You know the drill. Set the shuffle loose and see what comes up this round of Music Roulette. If you missed all the other episodes, here’s three and four to get you up to speed. I’m on a journey of self-discovery and self-soothing to beat depression. They say that music enjoyment often returns as depression improves and music therapy can be a helpful treatment for some people. Maybe this round will shake something loose that is lingering in me? Smells like midlife, or is that just your teen spirit?
Music Roulette 4 ~ The Latchkey Shuffle
Research shows that the level of personal enjoyment, not whether the music is happy or sad, is what matters for potential therapeutic benefits. This is an important distinction for me because music for me is all over the place. Symptom of my Gen-X-aphilia. If you’ve missed some of the earlier installments, you can catch them here, here, and here. I’m all about the self-healing and showing improvement of any depressive symptoms. Let’s see what we get this time around:
The Ex Files – The Jersey Devil
He texted me a song with no context. I've been divorced from him for thirteen years. Some men never stop fishing.
Deep Thoughts: What If I Made It Worse?
One time when we were living in Virginia, I bought a stranger a bus ticket. I don’t know what possessed me, and to this day I wonder if I actually helped that person? You’re supposed to wonder about the small things other people do for you that you can never pay back. But what if instead we wonder about the things we do for other people that we never hear about again?
