Music Therapy with Miss Moon

" The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox."
~ English Proverb

" The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances."
~ William James

For years, as a joke I referred to Fiona Apple's "Fast As You Can" as my "relationship anthem". I even went as far as to exaggerate that when I meet my next prospective partner, I would play the song for him... so he would know what he was getting into right from the start.

Even though I said it in jest, I think a part of me really thought that the song was an accurate representation of who I am in a relationship. It's not and I know this now. In retrospect, it would explain a lot about the way I am projecting myself and how men see me... and why I'm single still! LOL

So I meditated on it and I let myself be open to a new anthem to come into my life. And days later, I heard today's song choice for Music Therapy with Miss Moon at work. I hadn't heard this song in years, and I remembered liking it when it first dropped.

In rediscovering the song and taking in the lyrics, I found myself saying "THIS!!! This is me in a relationship!!". And I think that this song is the perfect new anthem to adopt. So I hope you all will enjoy "Clumsy" by Fergie. If you are single (or even if you are not) do you have a relationship anthem? What's yours?



Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it

First time
That I saw your eyes
Boy you looked right through me, mmmhmm
Played it cool
But I knew you knew
That cupid hit me, mmm mmm

You got me tripping, stumbling, flipping, fumbling
Clumsy cause I'm falling in love
You got me slipping, tumbling, sinking, fumbling
Clumsy cause I'm falling in love
So in love with you

Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it

Can't breath
When you touch my sleeve
Butterflies so crazy, mmm mmm
Whoa now, think I'm going down
Friends don't know whats with me, mmm mmm

You got me tripping, stumbling, flipping, fumbling
Clumsy cause I'm falling in love
You got me slipping, tumbling, sinking, fumbling
Clumsy cause I'm falling in love
So in love with you

Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it

You know, this isn't the first time this has happened to me
This love sick thing
I like serious relationships and a
A girl like me don't stay single for long
Cause everytime a boyfriend and I break up
My world is crushed and I'm all alone
The love bug crawls right back up and bites me and I'm back

Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it
Can't help it
The girl can't help it

You got me tripping, stumbling, flipping, fumbling
Clumsy cause I'm falling in love
You got me slipping, tumbling, sinking, fumbling
Clumsy cause I'm falling in love
So in love with you
So in love with you
So in love with you

Music Therapy with Miss Moon

“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing”
~ Kahlil Gibran

"You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from."
~ Werner Erhard

I've talked a bit about "the single life" and my thoughts about being single after being in a  relationship for several years. Most days, I really don't think much about it. Being single is just something I am, like being black and having natural hair. It's just something that.. is.

But I do admit there are days where I've gotten more than a little bit blue about my love life, and days when cynicism got the better of me and I resigned myself to being a "confirmed old bachelorette" one day... sort of like a female Henry Higgins. LOL

But I am a lot of things, but long-term cynic is not one of them. I am a proud Pollyanna on most occasions. So one day, I decided to stop fussin' about my love life. To stop mopin', to stop frettin', to stop feeling crappy about it. Just like a great job, a great man will come into my life in due time. And I refuse to pull my hair out about what's lacking in my world. I think it's more important to focus and show gratitude for everything that makes existence wonderful. Like music!

I decided to go out and look for a song that when I felt blue and longing for love that could articulate that desire without feeling pathetic about it. A song that was also really very fun. Fun in a "do a silly dance and cackle about it" way. Luckily... I didn't have to search for very long. And in finding such a song, I immediately thought to share it as a Music Therapy with Miss Moon pick. So I hope you all will enjoy "Summer Samba (So Nice)". I do believe this will also mark my first boss nova tune on the blog! LOL

Someone to hold me tight, that would be very nice
Someone to love me right, that would be very nice
Someone to understand each little dream in me
Someone to take my hand, to be a team with me

So nice, life would be so nice, if one day I'd find
Someone who would take my hand
And samba through life with me
Someone to cling to me, stay with me right or wrong
Someone to sing to me some little samba song
Someone to take my heart and give his heart to me
Someone who's ready to give love a start with me

Oh yes, that would be so nice
Shouldn't be you and me
I can see it would be nice

Someone to cling to me, stay with me right or wrong
Someone to sing to me, some little samba song
Someone to take my heart and give his heart to me
Someone who's ready to give love a start with me

So nice, that would be so nice
Shouldn't be you and me
I can see it could be nice

Music Therapy with Miss Moon

Happy Monday, Everybody!!!! Did you miss me?!?! I certainly missed blogging desperately! My computer is not 100% yet, but it's out of intensive care! LOL

This week's Music Therapy with Miss Moon song choice is one that I hope will lift your spirits, and most importantly, I hope that it serves as an important reminder that nobody has domain over your joy. And with love (romantic love, brotherly love, sisterly love, familial love, and SELF love), every obstacle can be overcome and learned from. Personally, I think Solange sings about it far better than I could ever articulate, so I hope you all will enjoy "6 O'clock Blues".



6 O'Clock Blues

If my house flowed down in the river
If all of these walls tumble down in the storm
If this war took all of my money
All of my pride
But I'd never be poor

As long as we got each other
There's nothing in the world that can steal my joy
Yeah, As long as we got each other
We can overcome the badness of the world

'Cause people don't make the world go round like they used to
But I know if I got one thing
Baby I know got you
Yeah, you keep me sheltered through the six o'clock blues
And if I know one things going to be alright
Then I know that it's me and you (oh, oh)

So they say we're running out of time
We're running out of water
We're running out of light
We all got to many problems
And just not enough answers
But if we keep our own lives then they'll tell us what we like

Oh, but as long as we got each other
There's nothing in the world that can steal my joy
As long as we got each other (we can overcome)
We can overcome the badness of the world

They can sell me a story
And tell me we're in danger
But our love will never die

'Cause people don't make the world go round like they used to
But I know if I got one thing
Baby I know got you
You keep me sheltered through the six o'clock blues
Yeah, you keep me sheltered
Through the six o'clock
Yeah you keep me sheltered, sheltered, sheltered, sheltered
Baby if I know one thing
It's going to be all right
I know that I got my baby
Like the birds that live in the sky
We never have to worry
Cause somehow we'll get by

A Little [ELLINGTON & COLTRANE] for a Saturday Night

Initially I was going to take a break from the slow jams and post something a little more upbeat for this particular Saturday Night selection. But a crippling migraine and an especially trying evening has my soul crying out for something soothing.

Thank you Bill Cosby, for playing this song and wooing Phylicia Rashad on "The Cosby Show"... implanting into my prepubescent mind that love can be calm and gentle. I hope that "In a Sentimental Mood" by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane will give you that same gentle feeling tonight. Enjoy!

Music Therapy with Miss Moon

Last week was a trying week for me. It started with my 32nd birthday on Monday, which I was actually excited about and thoroughly enjoyed, and it resulted in the devastating loss of my beloved fur baby,familiar and companion, Kema.

He had been sick for only a few weeks and it broke my heart that he succumbed so quickly and that I couldn't be there at his final moments. I am so grateful for Chris who held him while he took his last breath. The last thing I would want is for Kema is to leave this realm not knowing how special and how treasured he was by me. Chris quickly became an loving and doting step-dad to Kema, and I know that he is joining me in missing that fuzzy face of his.

I didn't want this blog to be a bummer, but I wanted to post this song with this little backstory as a reminder that love is eternal and that with love... life is so much better.



So this week's Music Therapy with Miss Moon is a love song, to Chris, whose love continues to nourishes me like water, and to Kema, whose love will never ever be forgotten. You both have made life a beautiful place for me!

Q-Tip feat. Norah Jones- "Life Is Better"

Music Therapy with Miss Moon

I have to be honest. I had no prior knowledge of this song until today. My darling husband-to-be came in from working (outside in the rain) and played this song for me, while accompanying it on his bass. He said that it was on his mind all day and that every single lyric is about me. So this Music Therapy with Miss Moon is a Super-Huggy-Lovey-Gushy rainy day serenade: "Rain Song" by Moodswings





Caught in a rainstorm
wondering what I must do
I'm standing alone
so many miles from you
I was thinking about our life together
knowing it must be now or never
to get back to you
now I've just got to get out of this rain
I can feel it washing my life away
and I know that I need to
get out of this rain
and listen to my heart again

I ran away
thinking it could be done
what I didn't realise
two hearts are better than one
I was thinking about all the times we were losing
living together can be so confusing
but we always won
now I just got to
get out of this rain

I can feel it sweeping my life away
and I know that I need to get out of this rain
and listen to my heart again.