Letter About Music To Take You Away
Dear Music Lovers,
When I lose a physical item, forgetting where I last put it, I’m then diagnosing myself with dementia at currently age 49. I am ridiculous like that. So you know the coronavirus coinciding with pollen season is driving me bananas. I felt sick Monday night, but it was because I’d walked at the beach on Monday morning where I thought I was safe. I couldn’t see the pollen but it was obviously there and got down in my lungs. I felt better the next day.
Back to losing things…it really bothers me when I misplace something and I don’t know where it is. It’s very unsettling. To date there is nothing permanently lost or I’d be looking for it right now instead of writing this post.
Over the past year since joining Spotify, I’ve been trying to build collections of my favorite songs. Spotify would have never caught on for me if I didn’t have cheatsheets - my dad and Jen Kehl’s playlists library. They are the only two people who I follow on Spotify. They both have collections of music that look like beautifully organized closets. And really it’s like - “Look no further, I got you”. My closets here at home look great, but my Spotify looks like a junk drawer.
I have my workout playlist that I dragged over from iTunes but I don’t hardly use it. I use my dad’s. I just didn’t want to lose mine just in case I wanted to exercise like my knees were 25-years-old again. I remember once upon a time telling my dad that his workout playlist was too slow, now mine is too fast.
I also have a playlist called They SANG That! and THAT is the one I created alllll by myself. As of yesterday that playlist has eleven shower sing your heart out songs in it.
On Wednesday I found a lost long song and I literally almost cried. You know how you gasp when you see someone you haven’t seen in a long time. Well if you could give a song a hug…. it was that kind of moment. It came up out of nowhere on my Google speaker.
I had picked the speaker up to dust under it and whatever touching of the speaker that I can’t seem to duplicate again, this long lost song start playing midstream!
I didn’t want to ask Google what song was playing because I was afraid interrupting would make me lose the song. I didn’t know where my phone was and then I remembered I could ask my watch. When it came up on my screen, THAT is when I almost cried. I sat down and asked Google play the song again.
While the song was playing, I went to YouTube to find it because that was the first place I’d ever heard it. This unknown guy just walking in the wilderness singing this song. Over the years looking for this song, I’d even looked in my youtube history. I could never get the tune in my head or think of any part of the lyrics to help me search.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPtbTPKuXk&w=560&h=315]
I’m so happy to have this song back in my life and it’s been added to my They SANG That! playlist on Spotify - which is a playlist of songs that I can listen to over and over and over again.
Sporadically Yours, Kenya
This writing prompt was inspired by Kristi Campbell of Finding Ninee, the hostess of the Finish the Sentence Writing Group Prompts, as well as Jen Kehl with the beautifully organized Spotify playlists and Facebook Page The Stereo Sisters. Go check them out and see what others are listening to, to take them away.
And a shout out to my Google Mini, I don’t know how you did it, but you made my day!