Shalis Reine

I must say, my daughter has excellent taste in music. She put this up on Youtube this morning, I’d never heard it before, just beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9LOFXwPwC4&ob=av2n”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9LOFXwPwC4&ob=av2n

Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

I can’t multi-task, I know that is unusual in a woman but it’s something I simply cannot do. I have to give my complete attention to whatever I am doing or I get distracted and confused. I wish I could put on some music while I write, or draw, or read, or anything else for that matter.

As soon as the music starts, it captures my entire attention away from what I am trying to do.

So here I am, a woman who loves music but very rarely listens to it. The only time I have music on is for exercise, cooking and cleaning. Mindless tasks that require no thought. Those are the times I can let music fill me.

Oddly, for a wanna-be writer, it’s not about the lyrics, I rarely even notice the lyrics unless there is a stand out line that holds meaning to me.

“If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy, I could have won.” Thank you Mumford and Sons, you totally hit the spot with that one.

It’s the way the sounds weave together, the pattern they build, it satisfies me in the same way that a well written book does, and it deserves the same, complete, attention.

So, all that said, I’m going to add a section to this blog where I occasionally share some of the music that inspires me.

And because I quoted a lyric from them, I’m going to start with the song it came from.

I give you…

Mumford and Sons – I gave you all