Some Wonderful/ inspiring songs

I had a friend who was down recently, so I made her a CD (amongst other encouraging things...!). Anyway, I realised I'd found a nice collection of songs to inspire and uplift and spur you along the right path etc etc, so thought I'd share them with anyone reading this from out there in the ether (helloooo!).

Why Walk When You Can Fly- Mary Chapin Carpenter
Breathe- Alexi Murdoch
The Heart Of Life- John Mayer
Hakuna Matata (The Lion King)
Oxygen- Willy Mason
Bridge Over Troubled Water- Simon & Garfunkel
We Are One (The Lion King II: Simba's Pride)
Power Of Two- Indigo Girls
Get Out The Map- Indigo Girls
Oh, Had I A Golden Thread- Eva Cassidy
You've Got A Friend In Me (Toy Story)
The Bare Necesseties (The Jungle Book)
Forever Young- Bob Dylan
Yellow- Coldplay
Here Comes The Sun- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Wide Open Spaces- Dixie Chicks
Suddenly I See- KT Tunstall
Search For A Hero- M People
You've Got A Friend- James Taylor
I Promise You- Show Of Hands

Awwwwgh. Such good songs. I'm happier already :-)

Harmonica

I've just bought a harmonica, and I have to share with you my excitement at its glory. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Oh, it's hot. Seriously, everyone with any musical blood running through their body should buy one. MMine was £9.95, first hand from just a normal music shop, and it's perfectly good. It's chromatic which means I can play all the notes I could on a small piano. And they're just amazing, coz it's pretty impossible to make a tune that sounds wrong, and you can get so many different sounds and tones and styles out of them, and they just about fit in your pocket and can be played anywhere...

Except maybe in Quaker meetings, libraries, etc. I was going to go to a Quaker meeting this morning. i've been once before and it's awesome. It's a bit strange at first, coz all you do is sit in silence for an hour with everyone else in the room, and every now and then someone says something to the meeting that they want to share. But it's so peaceful, and it helps you calm and evaluate and organise and settle your thoughts. Also, you're meant to think about love and community and God etc (I'm not religious, but religious Quakers (!) see it as sitting listening for God), so you end up thinking about important things and valuing love etc a lot more. Anyway, I've onyl been once so I'm making some sweeping generalisations here, but I'd say, as with the harmonica, try it at least once coz it's one of those experiences that's worth while for what it teaches you even if you don't want to do it regularly. As with all non-addictive, legal things, don't knock it until you've tried it!

All the best (end of babbling).

Sally