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MUSIC MONDAY: When I Get My Hands on You by The New Basement Tapes

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I’m about 160 days till my wedding.  Yup.  I only have that amount of time.  A little under 6 months, and still there’s a long list of to do’s.  But if there’s something I truly enjoy doing, it’s putting together Our Ultimate Wedding Playlist.

I stumbled upon this song on Spotify (like most of my Music Monday selections) and I like the soft and easy going tune to it.  The New Basement Tapes is something I have never listened to before, but the mix of country and melancholy made me consider this song as part of our prenup photos.

Photo from The Daily Herald

Photo from The Daily Herald

When it comes to these ballads, I tend to gravitate to voices that are not your usual pop tunes.  Of course, my love for pop music will always be there, but when an eclectic piece like this comes your way, matched with the perfect lyric, it’s quite hard to refuse making it a new favorite.

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Who wouldn’t fall in love with that?

 

MUSIC MONDAY: Fight Song by Rachel Platten

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I am not really a morning person.  Generally speaking, I find it easy to wake up early, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about it.  I think most of the time, I get up out of obligation.  I have work to attend to, I have to finish some school work, it’s my turn to make a meal…

Don’t get me wrong, I love being of service.  It’s just difficult to get up sometimes, especially when you know the extent of the obligations you have to carry out during the day.  I try my best to have a good ten minutes just meditating, but most of the time, the to-do list just run on and on in my head.

So one morning, on our way to work, this song comes on.  It was absolutely motivating.  I looked for a lyric video, so you can see what I mean.

I remember when Tatay died.  I couldn’t sleep.  I kept thinking in my head how are we going to move on from this.  What do we do next?  What will I be at work?  How will my wedding be?  Who will my mother grow old with now?  Where do we go next?  It’s just a barrage of questions over and over.

I don’t know how I got to bed.  Or how long it was before I actually slept, really slept.  More so, how I got up.  But I did.  I got up, I did my sun salutations, I made breakfast, took a shower, went to work.  And then I hit repeat.

This song brought back all those memories of those days.  And while the blessings continue to shower my path, I am not denying that when days are hard, they’re hard.  Truly sincerely disarmingly hard.

But there’s a lot of fight left in me.

Renaissance by Nicolas Senegas

Renaissance by Nicolas Senegas