Music and Memory #3
I just got myself a cheap little mp3 player. I have had a desire to get out and walk in the mornings and having some music to accompany me would help motivate me to walk more. I gathered a number of favorites from my computer and downloaded them to my new player.
Among the songs I added to my player were a few Josh Groban Christmas songs. Now if you have never heard him sing a carol or two you are definitely missing something. I could listen to them year round. In fact, when his Christmas CD came out last fall, I quickly got a copy for myself and began listening to it OVER and OVER...it was still only November.
About the time that I got this CD a good friend sent me a book...a very good, very difficult, very heart wrenching book, in the hopes that I would read it and enjoy it as he had.
Well, as it happened, I found myself reading that book, Give Us This Day, while listening to this new Christmas CD.
Fast forward to today. I am listening to the tunes I have just downloaded to my new mp3 player. As The First Noel and Angels we Have Heard on High by Josh Groban start out I am suddenly thinking of that book I read last fall. Many of the same feelings I had as I read that book come flooding back to my mind and heart.
It is a good thing.
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Labels: Adversity, Faith, Lifestops Music
posted by Kelly @ 9/13/2008 12:26:00 AM
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did you put any Bon Jovi songs on your new mp3 player????
~~~Starla
A couple of them thus far :)
Cap'n Kelly
Here's lettin' go a broadside wishin' you and your'n all the best!
Fair winds and followin' seas!
FJ, ahoy matey, I be surrounded by pirates t'day :D Arrrr!
I'll bet there's some Buble on that player... ;)
Pirates???
If you mean Captain Jack Sparrow....I'm headed out the door to your house, Kelly!!!! hehehe
~~Starla
Brooke,
yes, there is some Buble on this mp3 player.
Starla,
It was International Speak like a pirate day, yesterday.
I've been stubbornly using a casette Walkman until last year.
I finally got an iPod (on iPhone) last summer and IT CHANGED Y MUSICAL LIFE.
By light years.
I have close to 2000 songs-- with digitized, crystal-clear sound--in the palm of my hand. No rewinding, forwarding, casette flipping/changing...
John, for last Christmas my dear other half bought me an ipod. I had a similar revelation, and figured out how to play the Ipod through my truck's tape player. That quickly led to me purchasing new speakers for the truck. I would likely never have bought one for myself, but once I had one I do not want to go back....
as to the ipod thing...I still don't have one of those....
The digital age has certainly changed a lot of things. I recently, got a copy via email of my great grandma reciting a version of the 23rd Psalm. She died when I was 9. One of my relatives had taken the time to port it from cassette to mp3. It was a blessing to hear her voice again through my computer.
Like James said, once you go iPod, you never go back.
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