Music Therapy with Miss Moon

" Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
~ Khalil Gibran

" How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
~ Tony Robbins

" Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
~ Mark Twain


When I think about the past few months that have made up the year 2012, it astonishes me how many times I have strayed from the path that will lead me where I want to go and to who I want to be. I've felt unmotivated, I've felt frustrated and I have (for more times than I care to count, franky) put on the well-worn and ragged "Who gives an eff anymore?" uniform.

As has happened several times before, I am finding myself in much better spirits, and have a renewed passion to keep pushing forward until I reach all the goals I've set for myself this year. I will reach my fitness goal by year's end. I will find an awesomely kick-ass job that will be well worth the wait. I will move into my own modest but lovely apartment and will be ringing in 2013 in my own space. And until I achieve all of these goals... I will fight like hell to get them!

I'm discovering that it isn't about the days or weeks that you stray from your path, it's that one moment, that one second you steer yourself back into the right direction. I feel like I'm there again now, and it feels great to be back on the path today. I'm not going to beat myself up about yesterday anymore. I refuse to!

Today's song choice for Music Therapy with Miss Moon is from Bruno Mars (Making his first appearance in the blog), and I was struck at how many of the lyrics echo my feelings on starting over. I hope you all will enjoy "Today My Life Begins", and may it serve as a reminder that for each day we wake up and rise from our beds, we have an opportunity to do something to make something happen. Something that will ultimately make our lives better, brighter, and happier! Seek out that one thing today and embrace it, dear friends, embrace it with both arms!!

I've been working hard so long

seems like pain has been my only friend

my fragile heart's been done so wrong

I wondered if I'd ever heal again

Ohh just like all the seasons never stay the same

All around me I can feel a change (Ohh)

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me

leave the past behind me, today my life begins,

a whole new world is waiting It's mine for the taking,

I know I can make it, today my life begins

Yesterday has come and gone

and I've learned how to leave it where it is

and I see that I was wrong

for ever doubting I could win

Ohh just like all the seasons never stay the same

All around me I can feel a change (ohh)

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me,

leave the past behind me, today my life begins

a whole new world is waiting it's mine for the taking

I know I can make it, today my life begins

life's too short to have regrets

so I'm learning now to leave it in the past and try to forget

only have one life to live

so you better make the best of it

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me

leave the past behind me, today my life begins,

a whole new world is waiting it's mine for the taking

I know I can make it, today my life begins

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me,

leave the past behind me, today my life begins,

a whole new world is waiting it's mine for the taking

I know I can make it, today my life begins,

today my life begins...

Music Therapy with Miss Moon

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
~ Khalil Gibran

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
~ Malcolm X

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."
~ Dr. Seuss

If you are reading these words, then today is the day you have an opportunity to make a change that is dramatically needed in your life. Whether "today" means April 23, 2012 or any time in the future from then, you can use today to do something different. Because sometimes all we need to spice up our lives, and to get things going in the right direction is to simply do something out of the norm.

A few months ago, I woke up and decided I wasn't going to bum myself out because of the lack of jobs I was seeing online. I decided that instead of sitting at home feeling defeated, I was going to do something different. "TODAY....", I said then, "I will take a walk for a half an hour... get active, do something healthy for my body!". And on that day, I did.

Fast forward to TODAY (April 23rd). I walk two hours a day, and can walk up to 7 miles!!! That's HUGE to me! It was that day then that started me on this whole "Miss Moon Gets Healthy" path... and I'm not looking back from it. In fact, my life is tremendously richer and happier for just deciding to do something new that day!!

Think about what opportunity you can take today to spice things up in your life. Maybe you can drive a different route from work to home today. Eat lunch at a new spot you spotted. Call someone you've been meaning to find the time to call. Today is only as good or bad as you will it to be, and I don't know about you, but I'm aiming to make every day a great, kick ass day!!!

Today's song choice for Music Therapy with Miss Moon comes from the fabulous Roots crew, with some help from Blu, Phonte, and Patty Crash. I hope that "The Day" will aid in making TODAY a great one for you!!!



When I wake up, I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day

Yeah, it's like everyday I wake up, I stare into space and don't say much
Peer in the mirror, feeling dead from the face up
Coffee pots, cigarettes, morning Js, Baileys
Slowing down my day before it picks up the pace
Beats playing since the night before, thinking bout writing songs
Feeling exhausted from times we toured constant
And plus the toxics I sip got me tall
Still tipsy, staring at the city from the spot we call Los Angeles
Every day is like a blank canvas
Carving my initials in the planet like I brand it
Hand picked to live this life we take for granted
like a child with an upright bass, we can't stand it
Smiling through the trouble we face, tryna manage
my way without pumping my brakes and staying stagnant
Cause I can sit on my ass or just imagine
the madness I did on my path and paint the canvas

When I wake up, I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day

Before I rise and shine like a neon sign
I need the girl of my dreams to give me Einstein
And burn the marijuan' like Buju Banton
is my only bonafide break from these confines
I need a change of scenery like a mind tide
These kids bringing me the noise like the bomb squad
And everybody coming at me from the blindside
I'm tired, it's hard to open up my eyes wide
I listen to some theme music on the iPod
and walk around the crib doing little odd jobs
Checking my breath, take a view from this high rise
Feeling like I'm checking out a game from the sideline
I got to try different things in these trying times
Twenty-ten is different than it was in nine-five
It's come alive time, I picked a fine time
for getting open off life like a fine wine

When I wake up, I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day

Uh, yeah, Sunday morning, plan my day out
Whole new blueprint, brand new layout
Deep down still don't know if it'll play out
Before the first time, feel like I done found a way out
Skin getting clearer and it feel like I lost weight
Stop and say a prayer for the times I lost faith
Troubles of the world had me in a cross-face
Chicken-wing, sickening, liver so off-base
But now it's like I'm in the last lap of the car chase
and I finally understand my right to choose
My preacher man told me it could always be worse
Even the three-legged dog still got three good legs to lose
So you can stop and refresh the rules
Breathe in, breathe out, let it heal all your exit wounds
Something inside said that's the move
and made it today, I'll restart fresh and new

When I wake up, I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day
Cause today is gonna be the day, is gonna be the day