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One Hundred Nine:  The Wind – Cat Stevens

Just go listen to it, really.  I give a lot of music advice because it’s what I understand the best I guess, and I know that it is probably the most stable part of me I know it inside and out.  I am lucky to know and love the music that I do, and in this case I really wish everyone would go and listen to some Cat Stevens today, it is a Cat Stevens day.  Some days just have a very obvious soundtrack, Saturdays and Sundays usually have easy ones to figure out, The Wind is just one of those universally good songs all through the week. 

Some writers advise to write what you know.  It would be pretty hard for me to write a hugely in-depth drama on the life of a surgeon, but it doesn’t mean I can’t write from a perspective.  I have this idea in my head that I’m not good at anything, and although I get discouraged I do try to find things everyday that I am good at that can contribute to the conversation of life.  I’m so poetic today.

Needless to say I know my music, I know Saturday’s, and so I will explain why this fits perfectly.  I’ve spent this afternoon making changes to my room that I will be happy with, and I have decided over the course of the afternoon that I want to be a bit different.  I’ve started bit by bit, because no one built Rome in a day (is that the saying?).  So bit by bit I am changing my positivity, because as much as I would like to imagine coming home from London has only made me realise how I want to be, I have to actively make it happen now, I guess, it’s taken me four months to realise the gravity of my realisations, and now I know that things need to be different.

So Cat Steven has always proven to be one of those comfort artists.  Casually sprinkled among pop culture and cinema it’s one of those songs that is recognisable to an extent, not everyone knows the words, but it’s that song that played through a montage or movie credits that one time.  It’s a bridge song, making connections, journeying, passing through, and it is perfect for today.  I think the best thing to do for the moment is to just sit with it and breathe it in.  Is there any other way to listen to good music?

I feel like I should do a series on music.  Maybe in the week that I go to Cuba I can choose what I’ll write about.  My goal is to have them written before I go…writing blitz sometime soon?  Oh the things I do to avoid the internet on vacation.  I am determined to be strictly void of social media in general for a while I think, maybe I need a detox.

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