Pressing On

365 Day Project-Day 26-New York

I may have mentioned in the past that I find a lot of new songs from the shows I watch.  I think it started with Dawson’s Creek and the songs they would include in the show and then list at the end for anyone who was interested.  I was. 

I’ve watched as that trend has continued through the various shows that I watch.  I hear a song playing during a critical scene and I’m hooked.  I have to look up the song, who played it and then decide if it’s something I want to download.  I’ve done that with a lot of the songs in my collection. 

Tonight’s selection is a song I heard during a recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy; the episode where Teddy finds out Henry died on the operating table and Meredith and Derek get Zola back.  It was a rollercoaster episode.  I broke down in grief at one point only to whiplash into joy at another.  Rollercoaster!  This song was the hook.

 

365 Day Project-Day 25-My Love

Ok, so I’m still fixating on the music from the Twilight Series.  Each movie has had a song that gripped me with its beauty, its wistfulness.  The first Twilight movie gave me “Bella’s Lullaby” which I’ve already showcased here (Day 4).  This song is from the third movie in the series, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.”  Yes, I know I skipped the second movie, but I’ll get to it.  This one is for today.

 

365 Day Project-Day 24-Silver Springs

Ok, so a friend posted a Dave Matthews Band video on Facebook and I thought it would be a good one to share tonight.  I love that video, too.  But then, another friend posted a Fleetwood Mac video from 1977, when they had just released their album, Rumours.  I think I posted earlier that I’ve been a fan of Fleetwood Mac since the days of Rumours.  I even saw them live at a Day on the Green concert in Oakland in 1977.  Good times…

I then started looking at Fleetwood Mac videos and came across this one.  This song was not included in that album, but was included as a B-Side to the single “Go Your Own Way.”  I actually purchased that single on a 45 rpm (regrettably, I gave it away years ago, with all my other vinyl).  I remembering hearing it back then and fell in love with it.  I was going through a painful breakup and this song was one that got me through that time.  It was beautiful then, it is beautiful now. 

I’ll save DMB for another day. 

 

Jesus and the Woman at the Well

Justin Taylor posted this on his site, Between Two Worlds.  I love this story of the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus at the well.  I can so relate to her and to see in this reenactment how Jesus speaks without any judgment or condemnation and offers “Living Water” to her and then to see her eyes widen… that moment of awareness; gave me goosebumps.   

 

365 Day Project-Day 23-Ashokan Farewell

Posted last night’s musical selection by Mark O’Connor and started looking through other songs he’s played.  Found this beautiful song.  I’d heard it before several years ago and fell in love with it.  Tried to find Mark’s version from his album, Heroes, but couldn’t.  Found this version by the original composer, Jay Unger, instead.  So beautiful.

 

365 Day Project-Day 22-Amazing Grace

It has been a long weekend with long hours worked yesterday and today.  And tomorrow is Monday… I will need much amazing Grace to greet the coming week. 

 

365 Day Project-Day 21-Foolish Games

1997 was a difficult year for my daughter and me.  There were a lot of life transitions going on and we were coping as best we could.  One way was through music.  It was then that I started collecting music from the Windham Hill label.  Instrumental music from the likes of Will Ackerman, Jim Brickman and Liz Story was what I used to soothe and console me.  My daughter turned  to the likes of Jewel and in turn turned me on to her.  It was Jewel’s first album, Pieces of You, that captured me with the beautiful voice and haunting lyrics. 

We’re both in much better places now, Mandy and I.  For that I am grateful, but there are times when I hear a song (as I did today) and in listening I find myself thinking back to the pain again.  It’s ok, though, because as I look at that pain again, I find it less gripping, less “painful.”  I find myself thanking God for the here and now.  And that is a good thing, because even though the here and now can be wild and crazy, it is not the there and then.

 

365 Day Project-Day 20-At Last

A legend passed away today.  Etta James was 73.

 

365 Day Project-Day 19-Holocene

January’s just over halfway gone.  It’s finally raining.  Melancholy is the mood du jour, but, it’s ok.  As I think of it, I tend toward it being a normal state as a Christian.  It’s a longing, a missing something; and since this is not our home, it is normal to long for home, for Someone.  It doesn’t lack joy, though.  There is a deep joy; a joy at knowing that home awaits.  Despite the here and now, there is joy in knowing home awaits.  So the here and now is tolerable, joyful even.  There is joy in fellowship, knowing we’re headed home.

Bon Iver seems appropriate. 

 

365 Day Project-Day 18-Rumors of Discipline

More need to unwind after a crazy day… More Liz Story.