I'd Like to Add . . .

So a few months ago I got to go to an acoustic concert of the band, The Icarus Account (which consists of two twin brothers, Ty and Trey Turner, who both play guitar and sing).  I had heard of them before from a friend and liked their stuff but once I saw them live I really fell for the musical side of their songs. I walked away from that concert thinking that there wasn't a chord I heard that night that I didn't like.  There is a certain way of playing guitar that almost takes my breath away- they play guitar that way.  I like a lot of their songs but this is one that I get stuck in my head so I thought it would be fitting to write a post about it and put it in my moving music category.  Sorry I couldn't get a better video but they don't have music videos as far as I know (please let me know if you've seen one by them!) and all the live videos have bad sound quality and the sound is the best part so I thought this video was suitable.   "Closer To

We all have a niche for music of some kind or another somewhere within us.  The combination of music that each person loves will always be unique just to them.  It makes sense to me to think of it as their "music world".  I want to share (of what I have already come across) what music makes up my music world. I love music.  Some songs, types, genres and artists I appreciate and others I don't favor as much.  I want to invite you into the world of music that moves me.  Some music I am drawn to because of it's melody, some because of the lyrics tied to it, and some because of the combination of the two. I want to start a category of posts to feature this music.  To be honest the idea sort of comes from someone else's blog.  She critiques a different piece of music every Monday but as I don't post consistently, mine's a little different. My idea for this is that I highlight a specific piece of music for each post I do for this new category and just label

Oh the things I wish I could do.  The person I wish I was and could be.  The skills I wish I had.  The ways I wish I felt.  The character I wish I was.   The things I long to express.  The daughter, the sister, the friend I wish I could be.  The things I long to be close to. Here with a keyboard under my fingers, the possibilities are practically endless.  I could write a novel or pour my heart out, but it feels like something is boxing me in.  With time, maybe I could be all those things I wish I could do and be but I will never be perfect. I'm going to have to learn that when it comes to the stars I want to grasp, I will never be in a perfect place to jump for them. I will never be able to write in all justice, about something I want to write about.  I will never be able to fully express myself in a way that some other human will fully know.  I might not succeed in writing a book that changes somebody's life because I don't know how, no matter how much I wish I could.  

There is nothing like a good outlook to have going into any situation-and when I say "good outlook" I don't mean optimistic about how something will turn out.  I mean the perspective going into something (especially things you don't want to have to do) that even though the situation before you sucks, you've blown it over and over again and nothing in the scenario looks bright to you, you know it's not about your situation or how you are going to get through it.  This, I believe, is where hope comes in-that thing, that knowledge that does not come from you or your circumstances says that it's going to be alright.  It's the third party that sticks it's head in the door and says "Hi" when you don't know how you are going to be able to deal with what's presently in front of you.  It is something bigger than what time can hold-something that lasts even when you think you won't be able to. In my mind's eye, it is what we walk