Since I was very little, I loved to sing. I used to make up very small songs and sing them. I sang a lot.
A day without a song, even, when I have been unable to sing seemed to be a wasted day.
I can’t say that I have a great voice. I have been told that it is a nice voice. I don’t know. Mostly that was told to me by people who loved me or by family, so they might have been just being nice. I doubt myself. I doubt them.
I don’t like my voice when I talk and I hear it being played back once recorded. I don’t know if I have a nice singing voice or not. I don’t listen to it. I don’t know if I am any good.
I wish I had as much bliss over my voice as I do about singing. I am working on that.
I suppose if you read my previous bliss list posts, you would have guessed this one. Yeah music, it means so much to me. I love music. To me it is quite simply… bliss.
Some of my favorite types of music include classical music, big band, jazz, blues, 1960s rhythm & blues, rock, World music, Celtic music, drumming, and Chant.
Okay, I guess this comes as no surprise. Since creating and posting my first bliss list item last June I have often talked myself out of putting Bruce Springsteen on my bliss list. There have been a couple of other people as well, but those were more recent loves.
My all-time favorite albums are Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Born to Run
Jungleland
Thunder Road
She’s the One
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Streets of Fire
Badlands
Prove it All Night
I have loved Bruce Springsteen for over thirty years, I love him with a love that just won’t die, and he is my bliss. My love will not let you down.
Christmas Carols. I listen to them all year round. I sing them all the time. I was at the computer humming Oh Christmas Tree and realized oh yeah that is one for the Bliss List. I love them. I can’t remember a time in my life when they did not make me happy.
When I’m jonesing for some I listen to one of my many cds. I guess now I will be at youtube a lot since all my stuff is in storage still and the library only had two cds for me to take home: Linda Rondstadt and Yolanda Adams. I need much more than that.
I’ve only been twice. It’s hard to get to the ocean from Minnesota. I have always felt at home, safe, in bodies of water. With the oceans, near the shore, it feels like a reunion.
I worked at a video store for some time. The best part of the job, aside from free videos to take home to watch, was the sunsets viewable from the desk area. Magic. Bliss.
