Friday Tune-Up!

Here’s your Friday tune, Mammy…

You can know a lot about a soul just by listening to their song list on Spotify… every Friday, FourthSon sends me a “It’s Friday!” song. Often, I’ll reciprocate.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucious

I look forward to this exchange which I must admit feels mystifyingly intimate. To know what turns on another’s soul, what lights them up, what they would spend their precious time listening to… well, it’s a damn personal peek.

FourthSon is a strong personality. Always has been. He’s rock solid in his views and energies, such a safe space for others to be messy and wondering-wandering on their journeys. He is not easily deterred nor discouraged, ClarityAndPurpose seems to be his right hand helper… though he is a big-time napper on the weekends so maybe it’s just that he’s well rested. 😉

After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

FourthSon has been out on his own for years now… and I long to continue to know him better, more deeply. Days will pass without a text and I miss him in parts of my heart I didn’t even know existed! And so, with every Friday’s text, I rejoice… with each song he sends, I have been gifted a glimpse into what makes him tick. They’re more than songs to me… they’re pieces of him: his heart, his soul, his passion, his fire and zest for life itself and his vision for the possibilities of Love and Peace and Harmony in his idea of the world.

Fridays are the best, dude.

Is he aware that I inhale his every word? every text? every little sharing of his world? Probably not. He will, once he has children. Then he’ll get it… that our little Friday song ritual has been like air to me, water for this parched Mammy who misses her FiveBeautifulSouls every second of every day.

Music is the language of the spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

And so, today, it’s Cage The Elephant… a group he touts “can do no wrong.” Oh, I get this, I really do. FourthSon, birthed through me and on loan to me from God, you have been among my biggest teachers, thought-provokers, and fellow lyrics-lovers. Sweet child of mine, you can truly do no wrong in my eyes…

Today, in this very moment, I am full. Grateful.

Ear buds in, dancing shoes on… ’cause, Mammy, it’s Friday!

Here is a short practice that you can do right now to cultivate intentional mind-body connection for the purpose of experiencing JOY:

Right now, this very second, toss your ear buds in, don your dancing sneaks – or barefoot works – find a song and DANCE… dance like the whole damn world is watching and cheering you on and everyone’s life gets better and better when you swing your arms and sway your hips… and, awesomer still, send this song to a one of your kids, a parent, partner, or friend…. and peace be with you, with us all. ❤

Edgy, joyful, pondering…

Lisa

Modern Mystic & Life Coach

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