In a music therapy group today on an acute psychiatric unit, I brought in a Rascal Flatts song by request. I was hesitant to play it for this group of teenagers who lean more towards rap and hip-hop. I was afraid that if the song was criticized it too much, it would do more harm than good to the girl who requested it by alienating her from her peers. It doesn't take much for teenagers to do this to each other (or really, people of all ages I guess). However, my intuition led me to take a chance and I'm glad I listened so that we could all hear the song "My Wish." I'm still surprised that they all liked it. In our discussion about the song, a different girl brought up a line that stood out to her:
Right after work I drove over to Scott's for our last recording session. We recorded the vocals to Folklore and Good Morning, and the last lyric the I sang into the mic was "thank you, thank you." We've been working on this project for a couple of years now and it felt like it would always be this ongoing work to be created and refined. To feel a sense of completion in the recording process feels strange, and though he is encouraging me to let go it's not that easy.
At the very least this album gave us some well spent time together, and for that I am grateful. In the bigger picture it let both of us uniquely support each other's creativity, learn from one another, and create something more expansive than either of us could have done on our own.
"I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too"She said that to her it meant sometimes people love you even when you don't know it. She looked me straight in the eye and said, "Have you ever felt a sense of love and didn't even know where it was coming from? Sometimes I do." I'm not sure how this girl ended up there, but I was blown away by her ability to even ask that question in such a situation. It was nice to leave at the end of the day feeling HOPE.
Right after work I drove over to Scott's for our last recording session. We recorded the vocals to Folklore and Good Morning, and the last lyric the I sang into the mic was "thank you, thank you." We've been working on this project for a couple of years now and it felt like it would always be this ongoing work to be created and refined. To feel a sense of completion in the recording process feels strange, and though he is encouraging me to let go it's not that easy.
At the very least this album gave us some well spent time together, and for that I am grateful. In the bigger picture it let both of us uniquely support each other's creativity, learn from one another, and create something more expansive than either of us could have done on our own.
"We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions."I believe this to be true. It makes me absolutely elated to know that the President of the United States shares this value and said it out loud to the world last night in his victory speech.
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