Thoughtful Thursday

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" There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive."
Martha Graham

What a highly freeing passage - inspirational, motivational with a graceful jette to the derriere - but oh, so very real.

To know that what we're struggling and grasping and stretching for may not result in pure, unadulterated bliss.

Ahhhh. Because that 'blessed unrest' I'm sure we all know is all we need to acheive.

Ahhhh. Because a lot of us are already there, but we didn't know it.

Ahhhh. Because it's time to luxuriate in our uniqueness, and how that uniqueness feeds the world around you.

Happy Thursday, everyone.

Thoughtful Thursday

Music and love.

Love and music.

While Lisa at Clusterfook loves the Rolling Stones, and iMom loves Pearl Jam, and Asthma Girl has even been backstage (sorta) at a ZZ Top concert . . . the Baroness?

She's a crooner kind of gal.

Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra? Their voices are balm to my soul.

And, with you-know-what just around the corner, my thoughts this week turn to music and love.

One of my favorite love songs is by Sir Francis O'BlueEyes. Listening to it always reminds me of making dinner in our old house, and simultaneously being slow-danced around the kitchen by the hubster. Pretty sweet.

And yes, for your information, when I laugh - it wrinkles my nose.

(And my eyes)

(Big time)

So as an early valentine to all my beautiful readers, who I'm sure look fabulous tonight and every night, may I present:

The Way You Look Tonight
(Jerome Kerns and Dorothy Fields)

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm,
Just the way you look to-night.