Thank(mas): Music

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Living Room Dance Sessions

Today I acknowledge the gift of music.

Of people who began it, reworked it and presented it through the ages.

Of being able to sit in the summer and listen to a chorus of crickets and bullfrogs and imagine someone hearing the same thing thousands of years ago, and trying to duplicate it on their own crude instruments.

Of Christmas music that can make the whole room feel warmer and more cheerful.

Of being able to dance to music when I am energetic, confused, or overwhelmed: let the rhythms of the songs decide my movement.

Of watching my friends who study it find so much joy in the theories, beats, and history.

Of music as a reflection of the people who write it, and the way it can tell the author's story.

Of music as worship and expression of praise.

Of music in all the ways it changes, reveals, and grows.

Of music, as a gift.

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