“How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds.”
                    Dan Bennett

“Music is the arch-reformer.”
                    Henry David Thoreau

“Without music life would be a mistake.”
                    F. W. Nietzche

“What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.”
                    Dory Previn

“No trumphets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.  Destiny is made known silently.”
                    Agnes DeMille   

Monday Inspirations—Here are 3 weekly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something!

19.  Wind Down Time - Friday is my favorite day/night to kick back and turn the knob up a notch, open a bottle of beer and dance.  Friday nights are for making noise - moreso for me than Saturday nights.  Maybe that’s because I used to have 1 1/2 day hangovers and needed the extra recovery time.  :-)  I’m tamer these days, but still enjoy a good Friday howl and know that Wind Down Time - is a necessary practice for sanity.  Wind Down Time,,, come on now stepping up and stepping out.

20.  Make Friends With The Butcher or The Butcher’s Bone
Make friends with the butcher
I tell you why
He’s got the rump and he’s got the hind
He’ll sell you some t-bone
He’ll sell you some prime
Make friends with the butcher
steak burgers ribs & shishkabob time

Moved to a new town.  Met a new butcher.  Asked for a dog bone.  He had some in the freezer and got me one.  He wrote on the beef soup bone wrapper = Dog Bone = and put it into my shopping cart.  I really wanted a fresh bone, but felt the occassion of our first meeting should be one of my gracious acceptance of the butcher’s bone.  I said “Thank You” and smiled.

When you are inspired by some great
purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds;
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction,
and you find yourself in a new, great
and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself
to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed
yourself to be.
                     Patanjali
                     (C. First to Third Century B.C.)

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Pick one thing, a song, poem, video, painting, photo - and put yourself into the moment of creating that art.  Slowly, with great spirit, attached to your piece, inspired.  And this littlest of projects, to the most extraordinary project = will blossom under your touch.

Monday Inspirations—Here are 3 weekly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something! 

10.  Creepin Decibles
When the volume in your head or outside your head starts getting louder, and louder and louder and pretty soon, you need to turn it off.  OFF.  Silence.  Stop the creepin decibles before they blow my eardrums my mind my future.  Then a little lullaby song starts up ever so softly, and you’ve got more creepin decibles.  

11.  Radical Rampage
Teen angst, pre menstral syndrome, bad boss blues, my baby done me wrong and I’m on a radical rampage song.  You can twist it up positive if you like.  “I’m finally taking a stand for …. against….   This is me and you better listen up bucko!”  I feel a little, radical rampage coming on+++

12.  Our Mary Poppins
You can be our Mary Poppins.  Float on down and lift our spirits.  You can be our Mary Poppins.  Teach us how to fly… Do you have a Mary Poppins?  I do.  She taught me how to dance.   

Monday Inspirations—Here are 3 weekly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something! 

7.  Romance Me - Run through the field picking wild daisies.  Come to me with a ribbon and a flower.  Once you kiss my lips, write a love poem.

8.  Don’t Bite My Leg Dawg - Create your own words like - dawg.  Not sure Webster has that one yet and I’m not sure what it means.  I am literally referring to the canine dog when I say this.  My dog Ada came to us about 5 months old and would bite our calves as we walked past her.  I told her “Don’t bite my leg dog,” and liked that as a title referring to this dog and all the dawgs the word dawg refers to.  I’m certain it works both ways. 

9.  Sninny Dip Dippin’ - My husband said he wanted to buy a pool.  I said, “It’s like this.  I’ll swim naked in the pool but won’t lift a finger to keep it clean.  It’s your baby.”  We bought the pool.  I swam naked and he cleaned.  Happy ending.  Ever skinny dip?  While vacationing in Canada we crawled over a fence one night to swim naked in a motel pool.  Happy ending.