![]() ![]() PS: You can listen to the combined mix I assembled on the music player right below. And we have a lot of chores to do so let’s get to it. And here is some FABULOUS music to motivate, to amuse, to tell it like it is, and help you do some chores. Here’s a toast to you for being here with your offering of hope. Whether you are on your first day, week or year, of recovery cleaning up your “act”. Whether you do a top-to-bottom every-inch makeover or just get one bookshelf looking handsome. And since I often like to start my sets with a sort of welcoming musical incantation I can think of no better way to start this job than with John Prine’s Boundless Love, which speaks to how love is a very strong foundation for helping us get up, get down, or just get on through it. We all have friends, lovers, animal pals, and local communities that all give us the nourishment to get up and have a go at the grease in our lives. Speaking of others, NONE of us do spring cleaning alone even if we are literally alone with a vacuum and Queen on the stereo. So just keep planting them and grow a hope forest.Īnd using that hope to get the physical, psychological, spiritual, and emotional houses in tip top make us better fit to help ourselves and by default help others. Some of you, I can imagine, have a bounty of hope, an entire silo’s worth of seeds’ as it were. ![]() ![]() Give that hope a place of honour and grow a garden of it to share. So get out your trowel, root around and dig out that little nugget of hope and soap it off. To put it in simple terms – you have hope.Įven if it is buried Grand Canyon deep under dirty dishes, filthy flannel, or teenage traumas. So whether it is literal garbage or metal muck you are facing with a broom sword and dustpan shield in apron armour, if you are alive it means you are still cleaning away crap from the corners, still polishing off puke in the midst of pandemonium and that’s not nothing. He knows the bathrooms will be a horror show again on Monday but hopefully by cleaning it today it sets an example for tomorrow. Joseph Campbell said: “The world is a mess and it’s always been a mess.” And we as individuals have always been cleaning up that mess like the faithful school janitor. You are going to want to crank this, trust me. I do a spring cleaning mix every year myself but having other voices giving input has made this the best mix yet. I could not cut out so many choice licks and riffs, certainly not right now when I (and I imagine you) need a good musically puck-me-up to strut through this dirty business ‘gin on. Right out of the gate, I make no apologies the length of this on all fronts. Hope is in the air everywhere I look around ![]()
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