I’m grateful that I love all kinds of music. And I love to sing – to myself, when I’m in worship, when I listen to the radio in the car. I love the melodies. I love the words. I love to pretend that I’m onstage, singing to an audience. When I’m in the house, I love to move my body to the rhythm of the song that I’m singing to myself. A little joy, a little gift that is part of my life.
My husband still teases me when he sees “Mar” coming out – the me in my imagination who stood in front of the bedroom mirror as a teenager and belted out the latest Beatles’ song.
youtube is a gift to someone like me. I can spend hours scrolling through youtube, watching videos of rock and roll stars, of country western concerts, of duets and bands from the 60’s, when I was in high school, until now. I’ve watched the Vienna Orchestra and the Rolling Stones in the same day – maybe even the same sitting.
Dancing is good, too. I’ve always loved to dance. I dance through the house to the tunes in my head, moving from one room to the next. “The body likes to move,” a wise person once told me. (Dancing is good exercise, too!)
A melody a day counts as a good day, to me. Hum it to yourself…
The trees love to dance, too… photo my Mary Elyn Bahlert, 10/2014
TheWisdomYears.org 
Psalms 114:4
4 The mountains danced like sheep and the hills like little lambs.
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Thank you, Rabbi! I love the image from the Psalm.
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I could have written this post myself. I also imagine singing on stage and have done since I was a little girl in front of my bedroom mirror singing Beatle tunes. And, I love finding old and new music on YouTube. In fact I just interrupted a YouTube session to read my email where I found this post!
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