WHEN THE HEART IS GRATEFUL

hen the dog bites,

When the bee stings,

When I'm feeling sad,

I simply remember my favorite things.

And then I don't feel so bad.

~Chorus of My Favorite Things

                                                                                               From The Sound of Music

I really love the lyrics of this song.

It so reminds me of the things that bothers us in our everyday life.

What with the stings of sour or hurtful words, like criticism.

Then there are times that sadness sits in.  Loneliness comes to live with us, dwell in our hearts and in our minds, we waltz with it for a while.

But never for long.

THE SIGHT, SOUNDS and TOUCH OF MUSIC

 Music washes away from the soul

the dust of everyday life.

~Berthold Auerbach

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron

Music is what feelings sound like.

~Author Unknown

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.  

~Leopold Stokowski

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.  You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.  

                                                           ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

                                         He who sings scares away his woes.  ~Cervantes

Is there spirit in music?

Does music touch your soul?