Oh yes, music can bring me to tears easily, especially a magnificent talent like Andrea Bocelli or Kiri TeKanawa. It can also bring you right back to the moment in time that reminds you of a far gone time. Memories of parents, siblings, boyfriends, pets, our kids. There are so many great artists in all our pasts and so many wonderful sounds. It's funny how we take it so for granted but imagine not being able to hear music, how sad that must be for some.

Haha I know the feeling of needing to know what a song is. I kept trying to figure out the words to the song on "Jamie at Home" a show on the Cooking Channel. I googled enough that I finally got the info...I love the words, one line that I so appreciate is Take time to make yourself feel good

I love chilly mornings: my programmable thermostat that lets me sleep in cool air under a warm blanket, but comes on around 5 to warm up the house by the time I rise. Rinsing my face with cold water to wake up, drying with the towel warm from its bar over the heat vent. The first glass of water in the morning. Coffee already on, courtesy of early-riser DH. Sounds I love: the furnace coming on at 5 am! Snow shovels on the sidewalk and plows on the street while I consider getting up. School buses. Birds chirping in the morning, and at roosting time. Bullfrogs. Leaves crunching. 17-year cicadas (only, what, 9 years till our next cycle). Purring cats. The early-morning "thump" of feet on the floor, pitter-patter down the hall, "flush"--the sounds of progress in potty-training a toddler! "I'm home!" My favorite sound of all, from the guys I love.

"There was once was a farmer who took a young miss in back of the barn where he gave her a lecture on horses and chickens and eggs, told her that she had such beautiful manners that suited a girl of her charms, a girl that he wanted to take in his washing and ironing and then if she did, they could get married and rise lots of Sweet Violets, sweeter than the roses, covered all over from head to toe, covered all over with sweet violets..." Always loved this one, can still sing it all the way through!