I always want to listen to Bon Iver albums "Blood Bank" or "For Emma, Forever Ago" in these melancholic months. Also, "Peace" by Bethel Music is such a great slow and moody album. My dad passed a year ago, Jan 1. For the first time in 20 years, it brought me back to writing my own music. I played piano for 14 years while living at home as a kid and teenager. In my adult life, it took years before I was able to purchase a piano for myself and I've touched it very little since. When I was 18, right before I moved out on my own, I get a treble clef tattoo to remind myself that music was the first delight of my heart.
Hi Amanda, thanks for all of that. Yes, Bon Iver does give that melancholy feel for sure. Things do take time, but hopefully as you move on you will find solace and comfort in music and playing the piano. Best...
I love January for the slow dark quiet. I like the relatively low expectations and try to rest more, in non work time— read more, cook cozy food, be still. And listen to music. Windham Hill Winter Solstice is nice on a gray wintry weekend. I also find that going out for a walk at dusk helps lift my spirits and energy for the evening.
We’re going to need all the strength and composure we can get for these next for years.
Yes to all of that! Once I started embracing the melancholy (which January seems for me), it's all become so much easier. Have you heard of this book by Susan Cain - Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole? This book really started it all for me. I keep going back to it over and over again.
Glad you have found a place of acceptance. For me only then does the negative self talk subside!
Haven’t heard of that book but will make a note. I am a firm believer that our old (like childhood old) pain is the root of everything and until we get at that and unpack/understahd it we will just be stuck in the same negative cycles.
Welcoming in light and joy at every opportunity as it suddenly seems like there isn’t that much time left!
I always want to listen to Bon Iver albums "Blood Bank" or "For Emma, Forever Ago" in these melancholic months. Also, "Peace" by Bethel Music is such a great slow and moody album. My dad passed a year ago, Jan 1. For the first time in 20 years, it brought me back to writing my own music. I played piano for 14 years while living at home as a kid and teenager. In my adult life, it took years before I was able to purchase a piano for myself and I've touched it very little since. When I was 18, right before I moved out on my own, I get a treble clef tattoo to remind myself that music was the first delight of my heart.
Hi Amanda, thanks for all of that. Yes, Bon Iver does give that melancholy feel for sure. Things do take time, but hopefully as you move on you will find solace and comfort in music and playing the piano. Best...
I love January for the slow dark quiet. I like the relatively low expectations and try to rest more, in non work time— read more, cook cozy food, be still. And listen to music. Windham Hill Winter Solstice is nice on a gray wintry weekend. I also find that going out for a walk at dusk helps lift my spirits and energy for the evening.
We’re going to need all the strength and composure we can get for these next for years.
Yes to all of that! Once I started embracing the melancholy (which January seems for me), it's all become so much easier. Have you heard of this book by Susan Cain - Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole? This book really started it all for me. I keep going back to it over and over again.
Glad you have found a place of acceptance. For me only then does the negative self talk subside!
Haven’t heard of that book but will make a note. I am a firm believer that our old (like childhood old) pain is the root of everything and until we get at that and unpack/understahd it we will just be stuck in the same negative cycles.
Welcoming in light and joy at every opportunity as it suddenly seems like there isn’t that much time left!