No Need to Teach a Seed to Grow

Thank you to Sarah Mclachlan and her crazy beautiful voice!! Big fan of hers.  Ordinary Miracle is on her "Rarities, B-sides and Other Stuff" album which I love. Lots of gorgeous songs on it. 

Just dawned on my that the line is "no need to teach a seed to grow" in Ordinary Miracle. All this time I was hearing it wrong. How appropriate! For some reason that line makes me really happy today. I think I do crazy stuff like trying to teach a seed to grow all the time. So, no need to teach a seed to grow. They just do if you give them what they need. And sometimes even if you don't.

So Sarah McLachlan always seems to have a way of singing what I want to say. So here's one of my favorite songs by her. To new beginnings and new life and miracles and love and laughter and hydrangeas growing again and everyone I love being healthy and happy!!  :)!!

I feel like dancing!! ;) Now I should quit blabbing & go practice! Woohoo! ;)

Practicing music is the one time my perfectionism is a really good thing. ;) This is gonna be fun!! I took organ lessons for 5 months cause I couldn't stand that I didn't know how to play the organ too. Seemed like just a missing piece of my music education. But the cello... the cello is cause I'm dying to play it. It's for the love of music & love of the instrument. Well really, it's for fun! Cause it makes me truly happy! :)

Time to practice to the cello for real for the first time!! Yip yip!! LOL!! Very excited!!

Just had the crazy thought that I could write songs for her. And I really don't give a care how crazy that sounds. Cause it's not crazy. I really could. I'm just a beginner. But for some reason I just feel like I could write songs with her voice in my mind. Anything that inspires me right? Gonna try it this week. Maybe tomorrow. So two fun new ideas for this week. Blog for Robert & try writing a song again. And stuff with the kids since they'll be out of school. :)

Listening to Audra McDonald. Loving just about everything I'm hearing. My new favorite person to listen to. She's amazing! Had heard her sing before & was very impressed & remembered her. But never tried listening to any of her albums. She came up on Pandora with a gorgeous version of I Think It's Going To Rain Today by Randy Newman. Still trying to remember how I know that song. Anyway, she's amazing!! :) Will definitely keep listening to her.

ELEW!! Was checking to see if his new album was on iTunes yet. Love ELEW!! What I wouldn't give to be back at a concert right this second. The best memories!! Absolutely plan on more in the future with Becca! She says she'll be my chaperone & keep me outta trouble. I dunno bout that!! LOL!! The best times!! :)

So Robert wants to blog now. I think it's a spectacular idea! He'd be great at it. So I'm very excited to get him started tomorrow. And I get to start cello lessons. Woohoo!! :)

Try to Remember from The Fantasticks. Jerry Orbach. Love this song! Going to listen to more of this musical today.

Why I want to learn cello. :) Haven't watched it for months. Just what I needed tonight. Love it! Thank you Emeli Sande and Coldplay and the girl playing the cello. ;) I wanna do that! :)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/showbiz/biz-sessions/3757669/Every-Teardrop-Is-A-Waterfall.html

Definitely a fan of The Civil Wars now. Tried them about a year ago. Couldn't get into them. Must not have been in the right mood. Now must figure out which Pandora station to delete to make room for them. LOL! ;)

We all have more help than we realize. Prayer from Hansel & Gretel. Goodnight everyone! XO :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=homgiCRIeRY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Jennifer Hudson knocked it out of the park! Huge shoes to fill. Fabulous job! All on short notice.

Fabulous job Adele!!

Was really getting into The Civil Wars and they didn't let em finish! Good grief! Have to listen to more Civil Wars. Congratulations Adele!!

I wanted Mumford & Sons to win for The Cave. Pouting! Yes, we're 30 min behind. :)

About to watch the Grammys after we put the kids to bed. Best way to watch is with time stored up on the DVR for boring speeches, commercials, or music you don't like & other boring stuff. ;) Looking forward to Coldplay, Adele, etc. :)

SO the whole Whitney Houston thing. Been thinking about it some cause it's everywhere today & will probably be all over the Grammys tonight too. I hope her life was going well when she died. But I guess we're bound to find out more eventually. Doesn't look good though. I guess I mostly remember the old days when it seemed like she was doing so well. I remember admiring her & thinking that she was really something special. I guess I just feel that she could have done so much more without the drugs.

It is definitely a Killers kinda day today!! Woohoo! ;) Huge fan of Brandon Flowers & The Killers. :)!!