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Take Our Daughter's to Work - a memory

One morning, several years ago, upon arriving at my job at a local television station I was greeted by about 25 girls ranging in age from 5 to 17 who were milling around the newsroom. It was "Take Our Daughters to Work" day...

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About Music...

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

--E.Y. Harburg (Edgar Yipsel)

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

--Anais Nin

Without music. life is a journey through a desert

--Pat Conroy

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

--Victor Hugo

About Music...

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

--E.Y. Harburg (Edgar Yipsel)

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

--Amais Nin

Without music. life is a journey through a desert

--Pat Conroy

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

--Victor Hugo

What Music Moves You?

Much has been said about music and music's powers but I recently read an anonymous quote that best describes my personal attachment to my favorite music:

"Some music can grip you by the very heart"

As for myself, "theatrical music," whether opera or "musical theater" is what grips my heart more often than any other genre. When I listen to the my favorite music I am filled with it, I feel like my heart beats in time with the rhythm of the song. There are some pieces that really touch me; the score of Weber and Rice's Evita, and the choral music in Puccini's Turandot. When I first heard, "Astonishing" from Little Women-the musical I was totally moved yet again. It made me cry, filled a very special place inside of me and took me on a wonderful journey.

Please join me and add your comments to this blog entry, write about the music that "grips your very heart."

The Power of The Word

Theater, just like a good book, has the power to transport us, inspire us and stay with us as we go through our day. There is nothing I love more than to lose myself at a show or inside a wonderful novel but I think dlsaid it best in her blog

.....All the books I have read are now part of me. From the books of the Bible, Ruth and Job and the Gospels to J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

I have parts of Old Yeller which I read over and over as a kid. I have parts of Grimms Fairy Tales and Mother Goose. I even have parts of books that I read to my children, Berenstein Bears and Where the Wild Things Are.There are books that touch us deeply like Go Ask Alice an Anonymous Diary of a teenage girl, which I think every parent should read.

There are classics that I have enjoyed from Charles Dickens to Edgar Allen Poe. I have parts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thrillers, Horror, Love, Romance, and even Religious and Self Help Books.

There are books that I have read that I found mundane, and books I started reading that just didn't grab me and I put them down after a few pages.

There are books I took my time with enjoying the words washing over me, the story being absorbed into me. There are other books that I just couldn't put down and couldn't wait to get back to. There are books that I have read that taught me something new, or made me want to experience something new. There are books that I have read that made me laugh out loud, like A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson.

When I read, I see the characters, I feel what they are feeling, they become a part of me, so how could I be just one book when I have so many parts of so many books as a part of me?

Beautifully put!

Spring is here!

As I was reading "Little Women" today and found this wonderful passage in the first chapter.

.... Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could collect to make a Celestial City.

That made me think of Spring and the renewal that comes at this time of year. It seemed particularly fitting today since it is Easter.

Giving to Locks of Love "I Feel Like JO"

Fancesca cut her hair and gave it to Locks of Love and in the process feels like Jo from Little Women...

Today I donated my hair to locks of love. Eight inches of my magnificent mop have now been donated to quite a worthy cause.

I feel sort of like Jo in Little Women. I know in my heart that I’ve done the right thing, but there’s this very vane part of me that just wants to crawl between the covers and cry “my hair, my hair!” I hate myself for feeling this way, but I really don’t like having short hair even though Mom, Dad, and the Beutician said it looks great.

I feel sort of like Jo in Little Women. I know in my heart that I’ve done the right thing, but there’s this very vane part of me that just wants to crawl between the covers and cry “my hair, my hair!” I hate myself for feeling this way, but I really don’t like having short hair even though Mom, Dad, and the Beutician said it looks great.

Have any of you given your hair to charity?

When have you felt like JO?