So in an effort to motivate myself to get going I have put on music. Oh, the power of music. It can lift you, reduce you to tears by way of the first bar and also transport you immediately back to any bitter/sweet time in your life.
So I’m going to tell you about three pieces. The sad one first.
I only have to hear the opening of ‘A Lark Ascending’ Vaughan Williams and I’m back sitting on my mother’s bed. She was lying in my sunny yellow living room and it was the last piece of music we listened to together before she died. ( The anniversary is coming up, that’s why it’s on my mind.)
Being a Motown Girl I think Stevie Wonder is a genius. He’s been with me growing up and I can sing along at the top of my voice in the car to most of his tracks. ‘As’ takes me back to my wedding day, conjures up images of eating brunch, sitting outside on a summer’s day, the scent of bunches of sweetpeas filling the air or standing at the top of a mountain, blue sky, clear air in my lungs with the twinkling, snowy slope stretched out in front of me.
And my third? After watching The Intouchables, starring François Cluzet and Omar Sy, again last night (and if you haven’t seen this movie yet, you really must) ‘September’ is just the pick-me-up I need today. So if you are driving on the A27 in Sussex today and you pass a woman, music blasting out, singing at the top of her voice to Earth Wind and Fire, wave and smile - it’ll be me.
Teresa x
PS Today is the 10th anniversary of the day my sister passed away. Told you it was sad.
What are your three?