SUNDAY THOUGHTS: MUSIC

I love music---good music---real, live, un-fooled-around-with music---actual melodious, moving voices---well-written lyrics----actual instruments played by skilled human beings. 

Good music is healing, helpful, inspiring, mood altering, and motivating. 

I’m not going to clap, pay, endorse, endure, or say it’s good if it isn’t. 

I’ll pursue it because, when, or if I can, and want to, not because of who else is going to be in the audience. 

I’m no expert, just a human with ears that still work. 

Florence Foster Jenkins had an audience, too. 

Some applauded because they thought it was deliberate comedy. 

Some applauded her sheer nerve. 

She was oblivious to her lack of skill because opportunistic people close to her had their eyes on her cash. 

They LIED, and encouraged her delusion because it lined their pockets. 

Yes. Anyone can do anything, but not everyone does it well. 

Putting one’s best foot forward can’t be a thing of the past. 
Good music, thankfully, can still be found.