1/365: Clean Slate *Explored*
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Ever since I can remember, music has been the most effective, reliable medicine I could reach for. It didn’t matter whether it was pouring out of my toy record player or the crappy cassette recorder I carried everywhere as a kid, the fancy stereo I had in my twenties, or my currently dying green mini-iPod. The medicine of music has been an immediate and often universal recognition of hurts and loves and truths that sometimes get lost in the fog of day-to-day living. I find that it meets me where I am in the moment, accepts me as I am, and brings the truth up and out of me.
So last year I introduced Music Medicine Saturdays, where I share some tunes with you that have carried me in the dark, and lifted me out into the light.
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Clean Slate Edition
This is where we say goodbye to 2009, and HELLO to 2010! This is where we embrace new possibilities and erase the mental obstacles that prevented us from that embrace just days ago. We all need these moments in our lives to pause and start anew.
Alanis Morissette -- Thank U
Before we move on to the wishes and dreams of tomorrow, we must tend to the open wounds of yesterday, in gratitude for all that is and was. This is a necessary first step in the letting go process!
Natasha Bedingfield -- Unwritten
This was to be one of my “resolution” songs of 2009, but it wasn’t to be. It’s still one of the clearest definitions of “clean slate” in song that I can think of. Happy 2010!
Dar Williams -- It’s Alright
Somewhere between saying goodbye to yesteryear and looking at the clean slate of today is the fear of and resistance to that thing called change. And that’s okay!
I’m my own sovereign nation/Dedicated to a transformation/Marching on with this target on my chest
Jem -- It’s Amazing
A song about dreaming big and dreaming on.
Here’s to dreaming big in 2010!
