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Playlists for Truth

November 28, 2010 Written by Lisa

Continuing on with the 30 Days of Truth, here’s question 24:

Day 24 → Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)

Hmm, music has such power for me to evoke emotion and where I was at that point in my life. I think I’ll dedicate this playlist to me and some of the milestones they embody.

Age 10: Partridge Family “Summer Days” (hokey ass song if ever there was one)
This lyric ” … we reached the top of the world together / there, you give your love to me / and I remember perfectly / high above all time and space / and I remember summer days” – well, I thought “there you give your love to me” meant she gave him her heart. Yeah. No. Not so much. I do believe she gave him something else, though. Something a ten year old in 1970 couldn’t quite wrap her head around just yet.

Age 18 and first days of fall and going to college: “Right down the line” Gerry Rafferty
I hear this song and it’s fall 1978 and I’m working at a fast food place, hanging with my friend Laurie and getting ready to go to Towson University. Good times. Totally. Love this song!

Age 28 and hanging out with the hellish boyfriend: “Waiting for a star to fall” by Boy Meets Girl – this song was all over the radio and it reminds me of finding out that he was a cheating ass. It took me about two years to get rid of that association and now it’s one of my most favorite songs. Trivia: it was written for Whitney Houston but she passed on it so the original songwriters recorded it. It’s such a happy song, isn’t it?

Age 32 – so so so codependently and desperately in love with a married man and the soundtrack that summer was “Ghost” by the Indigo Girls.

The lyric that says it all: “and i feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me / but i’d walk into the fingers of your fire willingly / and dance the edge of sanity i’ve never been this close / in love with your ghost”

This song was what got me through a month where he and I agreed not to talk – he’d call me and the song would be on in the background – we’d say nothing and just hang up when the song was done. It was so dramatic but I had never felt like that for anyone before and it just about killed me. This is a truly poetic and beautiful song. Give a listen. It’s worth your time. Trust me.

“My bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep …. in love with your ghost” – yeah, I’m not crying over here or anything.

Age 42: This comes from a period that has its own playlist and it was during my “dark night of the soul” that eventually led me to where I am now. This song by Incubus Wish you were here brings me back every time I hear it along with “Barely Breathing” by Duncan Sheik – wanna know the kicker lyric for me? “Don’t know who I’m kidding imagining you care …” and a big bunch of others capped with “Pictures of you” by The Cure. Ah, good times, that dark night of the soul.

Age 48-49: The year(s) of my Cookie obsession (which is just in hiding until his new cd comes out in 2011) I’d list some of my favorite YouTube clips but there’s too many. Here he is at his most beautiful vocally: “Avalanche” from just about a year ago. He will always be on my playlist. For reals. I loves him.

(I’ve had fun going back and listening to the video clips. Especially the David Cassidy one – I think I have a thing for singers named David.)

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If wishes were fishes …

November 7, 2010 Written by Lisa

30 Days of Honesty and we rock on with today’s question:

Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life.

Well, heck. There’s a lot of things I HOPE to do in my life: fit back into my size 10 jeans (hahahahahh), go on a cruise, write and publish a book, meet up with David Cook in a dark hotel room and not stutter this time, walk the Race for Hope in 2011 and on and on and on.

For today’s entry, though, I think I’ll write about this:

It is my most fervent desire to be able to leave my current day job and create a thriving and abundant intuitive coaching/reading practice. A practice where I get to work with really cool people who use what comes through me to bring about some positive shifts in their own lives.

I think I’m heading in the right direction!

If I had to choose a wish between the size 10 jeans and this, I’d choose this without one moment’s hesitation. It’s my soul’s longing. The jeans are a fantasy that I got to live out for a bit and might live out again but this? This is my true joy and calling.

Big big thanks to all who’ve left me such sweet comments on these entries. The Angel story was hard to write because it still stirs up so much stuff. I’m glad my dad was always my voice of reason. Perhaps this blind man truly “saw” the bigger picture, eh?

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I’m breaking up with Hal

September 26, 2010 Written by Lisa

See, I have this weird thing that happens every once in a while and for the most part, I’ve outgrown it except when I haven’t. And now is one of those times. I can be loving on you like a big dog and then something happens (most times, I can’t even pinpoint what it is) and I’m just DONE. It’s sort of like the missing ingredient to a special recipe is no longer sold and the cake doesn’t taste as good anymore so you never make that cake again. (I hear strains of MacArthur Park playing in a galaxy far, far away ….)

Here’s the thing: Even though I know better than to believe crap spewed on the internets, I read something right before I went to see his show. And I don’t know why, but it stuck in my head. And I saw him in a different light from then on. It’s probably not true or a version of true but it was like a light switch flipped and, as BB King famously said “The thrill is gone, baby.”

He’ll be shattered, it’s true. I mean, losing the lust of some farty old chick in Maryland is pretty horrendous. That’s a given. Quite frankly, I don’t know how he’ll go on. But he will. We all do. Somehow. Some way.

Cookie hasn’t done anything untoward (in real life or some chick’s goofball facebook posting) and I restate my true love for all times. I should have never taken in another lovah, my sweet Cookie. Can you forgive me?

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I still love him

August 8, 2010 Written by Lisa

In case you think I haven’t been to Cooklandia lately, here’s a shot of his gorgeous self from last night’s show at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. I ended up not going because I kept getting a wonky vibe not to. Turns out, the wonky vibe was a certain someone’s heart attacking him the previous week. I coulda gone but …. didn’t.

However, Hal is next weekend and oh hell yeah – my ass will be there!

Cookie Love

Friday Flailing

May 20, 2010 Written by Lisa

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So, yeah. It’s (almost) Friday. I’m glad. Maybe this week of WTF will be at a close. The only good thing I can say is that I have done 15 mins on the bike each day. Duty just had to shame me into it once.

On the dissonance front: it continues. However, after lots of chats with my guides and input from friends here (thanks Jody and Gal) and from my woo-woo buds at Democratic Underground, I’m going with this possibility: It’s their weird shit to deal with and I’m just the one noticing it. That works for me. Duty gave me some advice when I was whining about it last night: Let it go. And while that’s not my preferred way of handling things, it IS something new for me so I’ll try it.

I’m using my copious down-time at work to write a post for PI on ceding authority to your Guides in Spirit and how they wouldn’t let you do that anyway. It’s a response to Rose’s post where I talk about what my experience has been in that arena. I’m also practicing my own self-authority by not worrying if people think I’m a slack ass or not and giving thanks that I have a job where I have lots of independence. I’ll let you guys know when the post is up (probably this weekend).

And one last comment: Since I fell in love with sekrit boyfriend, anyone else after that seems so fake. I think my heart is closed to all but DC and HS (and I’m not even sure how Hal managed to get in there! Brains, arm porn and humor carry a lot of weight with some chicks. heh) Watching Idol is so lame, even *I* don’t know why I’m doing it. Poseurs, all of them. But not my cookie!

Happy Friday to my blog buddies! I luf you all!

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