Lettin' love blaze like fiya wata

I've written before about how powerful I think music is.

It can rouse so many emotions, a huge great raft of feelings and even act like a commanding call to action. Make you want to cry, to dance, to tell someone you love them, to board a plane to the other side of the world and defiantly cast off your fears like a too-hot jacket (I'm talking to you, Jump by Madonna).

For me, it provides a great source of comfort when times are tough.

This live performance of Fiya Wata by the magnificent Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros completely and utterly enriches my soul. I adore it.

I challenge you to listen and not get goosebumps.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOmRc80-drM]

A Sentence A Day - 26 January 2015

In 2015 I will be writing a Sentence a Day. You can read more about why here.

Today is the 26 January 2015.

Question:

If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose?

Answer:

Please plop me immediately back on Mandraki Beach on the Island of Skiathos, Greece where I last was in 2013 walking along a sandy shore with warm waves gently lapping over my toes as the burgundy red sun set; listening to 40 Day Dream by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros on my iPod and knowing that my husband, an ice-cold beer and a book would await me upon my return to the sunlounger, I didn't have a care in the world.