Include Music

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Leo Tolstoy

Include your favorite songs in your letter.

Music is magical. Songs are simple joys that brings relief to hard times and greater joy to good times. There is long list of dance songs that I just can't keep my feet still when I hear them. I am compelled to stand up and move with wild gyrations like no one is watching. My children plead with me to stop. (I am sure their children will beg them to stop when they do the same. Very sure.)

I am including my favorite love songs in my letter. I have more of those than dance songs. The song we fell in love listening to. The same song we re-ignite that love every time we hear James Taylor live in concert. Our wedding song. The song I danced with my daughter on her wedding day. My mother's favorite song. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony tells the story of my life. The fourth movement lifts my heart like an eagle soaring on a thermal.

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

Bono