The Power of Music

I am a very well trained harpist (story for another time), my mother was a jazz singer, and my siblings attempted. But music has this amazing healing power- even my works with ‘Healing Harps’ -which is for deaf and blind children- just the vibrations give comfort. I didn’t realize it until this weekend- I was stressed about, well, everything. My boyfriend Trever convinced me to just calm down and go see a band called MOE (which I will write about because I didn’t want to go, but I am so glad I did). I actually sometimes hate concerts, crowds kinda annoy me (why I don’t protest much…or at all))- BUT, I will say this: seeing them rift and just loving music, totally calmed me.

And now here is where I get to the controversial part. I hate Pink Floyd- seriously, I think its a joke they got to be musicians. My sister loves them, so does my boyfriend- I don’t get it- it’s probably how old women think about Taylor Swift- we get it: you suffered young love and put it to lyrics, but everyone has bad breakups (I would actually like to add that I am friends with most of my ex’s- even was asked to read at one of their weddings, its not always so bad when it ends- you loved them for a reason) - ok that was way more about Taylor Swift than I intended.

Pink Floyd tried to get a tad more political- then they split up because Roger Waters kinda went off the rails… and this is important right now. He is pro- Palestine- and incredibly unapologetic about it- which is his right. I want to again say, I hate his and Pink Floyd’s music. But this, this made my heart melt- and I can almost forgive the guy for his awful, awful music. I love what he does for veterans: