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Music ~ A Poem by Walter de la Mare

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Music

Walter de la Mare

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees
Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies.

When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.

When music sounds, all that I was I am
Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
And from Time’s woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

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The Power of Music and Memories in Healing from Grief – Episode 122

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Listen to my Podcast, Journey from Grief to Healing, Episode 122 on your favorite podcasting app or click here for Episode 122 

ourney from Grief to Healing Podcast – Episode 122: Embracing Memories and Melancholy

In this heartfelt episode, I find solace at a Starbucks, sipping on a grande iced green tea while reflecting on the South Texas heat and the parallel journey of enduring grief. Join me as I share personal anecdotes from my garden and draw parallels between mosquito bites and the gradual subsiding of grief.

Discover the power of music in healing, as I delve into the poignant lyrics of Jamey Johnson’s song “What a View,” and how it resonates with my own cherished memories. This episode is a tribute to those we love and the lasting impact they have on our lives.

Listen in as I explore the bittersweet blend of joy and melancholy that memories bring, and find out why smiles and gratitude are our best defenses against the pangs of grief. Let’s journey together from grief to healing, one memory at a time.

Keywords:

  • Grief Healing
  • Coping with Loss
  • Emotional Reflection
  • Jamey Johnson Music
  • Cherished Memories
  • Personal Growth
  • Healing Journey

Hashtags: #GriefJourney #HealingFromLoss #MemoriesAndMelancholy #MusicTherapy #EmotionalHealing #JameyJohnson #PodcastEpisode #PersonalReflection #SouthTexasLiving #GratitudeAndJoy

The Power of Music and Memories in Healing from Grief – Episode 122

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Journey from Grief to Healing Podcast – Episode 122: Embracing Memories and Melancholy

In this heartfelt episode, I find solace at a Starbucks, sipping on a grande iced green tea while reflecting on the South Texas heat and the parallel journey of enduring grief. Join me as I share personal anecdotes from my garden and draw parallels between mosquito bites and the gradual subsiding of grief.

Discover the power of music in healing, as I delve into the poignant lyrics of Jamey Johnson’s song “What a View,” and how it resonates with my own cherished memories. This episode is a tribute to those we love and the lasting impact they have on our lives.

Listen in as I explore the bittersweet blend of joy and melancholy that memories bring, and find out why smiles and gratitude are our best defenses against the pangs of grief. Let’s journey together from grief to healing, one memory at a time.

Keywords:

  • Grief Healing
  • Coping with Loss
  • Emotional Reflection
  • Jamey Johnson Music
  • Cherished Memories
  • Personal Growth
  • Healing Journey

Hashtags: #GriefJourney #HealingFromLoss #MemoriesAndMelancholy #MusicTherapy #EmotionalHealing #JameyJohnson #PodcastEpisode #PersonalReflection #SouthTexasLiving #GratitudeAndJoy

Today’s Quote: Listen for the Music, It’s There

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Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song. ~ Richard Llewellyn

Today’s Poem: Music in My Soul by Marcus Mosiah Garvey

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Music in My Soul

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

There’s music in my soul today,
A joy of heart not there before:
This state of conscience I relay
To rich and proud and meek and poor.

There’s music in my happy Soul:
From Heaven’s realm doth truly flow
This music in my happy Soul,
My conscience tells me riglitly so.

My song of joy I sing to you:
Let peace and love forever be
Among ye men of every hue,
Of every land and charted sea.

I crave no other fortune great,
But joy to live in peace with God;
My hopes are fixed on His Estate,
In faith so true as prophets had.

This music in my soul today
I spread in truth with love unfurled;
On waves of cheer it goes, I pray,
To reach around the belted world.

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Today’s Poem: An Aspiration by Robert Crawford

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An Aspiration

Robert Crawford

Music, with the tears in it,
Through my soul is ringing,
Moods like bodies flame and flit
Through the spirit’s singing;
Dream-birds half-articulate,
Which no charms can capture,
Come by twos and nest and mate
In a moment’s rapture.
Now I seem to be upborne
On a starry pinion
Where the poet’s hope forlorn
Has divine dominion —
Where he sees the clouds of earth
Gather light and cluster,
As babes on the dawn of Birth
Watch the visions muster!
All that thought and feeling share
In a soul’s possession
To my singing seems to bear
A divine confession;
As within my dreaming brain
Lips of inspiration
Breathe the beauty gone again
On a new creation.

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Episode 18: A Step Forward While Grieving: I Began Playing Music

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In Episode 18 of my podcast, Journey From Grief to Healing, I played music in my home. I hadn’t played music since Babe entered the hospital six months earlier. The first song that randomly played was Garth Brooks’ Unanswered Prayers.’ It wasn’t easy, but I listened to it.
You can listen to this episode on your favorite podcast app or you can click the following link. Enjoy!

https://raycalabrese.podbean.com/e/episode-18-a-step-forward-while-grieving-i-began-playing-music/

Today’s Inspiring Photo: Fill Your Heart With Love Songs

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Thinking Out Loud: The Dance of Love

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Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Boris Pasternack’s  work, Dr. Zhivago.

“Their love was great. Most people experience love without becoming aware of the extraordinary nature of this emotion. But to them—and this made them exceptional—the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of eternity were moments of revelation, of continually new discoveries about themselves and life.”

Note: A deep, passionate love continuously breathes new life into a relationship. The parties to the relationship lose themselves in each other. They maintain their individuality and simultaneously surrender themselves completely to the other. Observing them is like watching two great dancers. The individuals become absorbed into the dance of love. With each beat of music they capture another glimpse of the other and fall deeper into love.

“The Night Dance” A Poem by Thomas Moore

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The Night Dance 

Thomas Moore

Strike the gay harp! see the moon is on high,
And, as true to her beam as the tides of the ocean,
Young hearts, when they feel the soft light of her eye,
Obey the mute call, and heave into motion.
Then, sound notes — the gayest, the lightest,
That ever took wing, when heaven look’d brightest
Again! Again!
Oh! could such heart-stirring music be heard
In that City of Statues described by romancers,
So wakening its spell, even stone would be stirr’d,
And statues themselves all start into dancers!

Why then delay, with such sounds in our ears,
And the flower of Beauty’s own garden before us —
While stars overhead leave the song of their spheres,
And, listening to ours, hang wondering o’er us?
Again, that strain! — to hear it thus sounding
Might set even Death’s cold pulses bounding —
Again! Again!
Oh, what delight when the youthful and gay
Each with eye like a sunbeam and foot like a feather,
Thus dance, like the Hours to the music of May,
And mingle sweet song and sunshine together.

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