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Music Monday

I know this next song is one that I have played many times before, it's just, such a beautiful song.  I think anyone can look back at moments in their life, looking back, the love of family and having no hard feelings for making mistakes, and having regrets, yet at the same time to not give up those moments for anything.  As one of the favorite lines that I memorized in high school:

To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?

Which that short paraphrase from Shakespeare always brings to mind Alfred Lloyd Tennyson's famous quote from his poem; "Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." It brings to mind that wandering pilgrim, pondering the life of what once was, the life, the ideas, all of it.  A better person has written a more "proper" description of this poem and you should check it out here.


To me, Love is always ever-enduring.  The loss of that love, is definitely a punch gut-wrenching experience.  Though, when it ends, it's something, though scarred, you can heal from.  Truly, the real loss, and enduring pain, when everyone is still in love, and truly loves one another, but for whatever circumstance(s) that occur, everyone walks away.



I have been told that I am not an easy woman to love.  I feel that is a hurtful cop out.
























And so time to transition to a few upbeat songs: