Soundtrack of My Life

"No All-star Cast No Scripts No Budgets..... in the Soundtrack of My Life", this is one of my favorite song lines it's from a song called Soundtrack of My Life by Deemi.

As far as I can remember music has played a major role in my life.  To this day I have yet to be successful at journaling and creating vision boards.  But I can visualize my life in and through music.  Music has been my solace and comfort.  You can truly tell my mood by the music I am listening to at the time.  If I am listening to gospel I am searching for clarity and/or needing motivation.  If I am listening to Old school R&B which is my favorite genre of them all, I am usually cleaning my house and/or just reminiscing.  Now if you catch me listening to hip-hop I am truly in a party mode and you might even catch me dancing a little bit with my un-coordinated butt.

Since we all are on a journey to find ourselves.   Re-learning what makes us, us.  I thought a project my daughter came home from school with one day, would be a cool unconventional way to do something fun and learn about yourself in the process.  In the project she had to come up with a song that describes different aspects of her life.  It was so neat that I decided it would be something to try for myself.  So we are going to include this in our blog.  I will start this one off with one of the topics and my song of choice.  We will be sprinkling these topics and song choices throughout our blog.

Topic One:
Who you are?

"Pieces of Me"  Ledisi

The way she starts out the song, "People just don't know what i'm about, they haven't seen whats there behind my smile, There's so much more to me I am showing out......Pieces of Me".  The song almost brings me tears whenever I hear it.  The first line Wow, Need I say more.  Nope!  She pretty much summed it up for me.

I am a fairly young, beautiful black woman (30 is not the new 20).  Loving everything from my curly hair, to my thick hips and nicely proportioned booty, all the way to my Flintstone feet.  I am me love me or hate me it's not going to stop my shine.

What about you?  Find a song that describes who you are and journal it.  Revisit your journal entry and listen to the song as often as possible.   Play it and sing it Loud and Proud!!