Intense and meaningful music choices
This month's issue of Zen Dixie magazine is a music issue, and I've been surprised and moved at how deep and meaningful my fellow writers' articles are. So this is partly promo, but also just an invitation to read some very moving stuff.
This month's Karma Obscura article, Sweet Caroline, by Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, talks about how that song was just randomly chosen as the music for the seventh-inning stretch at Fenway Park, where the Boston Red Sox play. But what a life of its own it has achieved! So much, in fact, that singing it in other major league ballparks became a way for cities, teams, and fans to show the people in Boston how supported and cared for they were after the marathon bombings.
And perhaps even more moving, perhaps, is Nanette Morton's account (Nerd's Eye View: September in the Rain) of how the music of Dinah Washington became her last way of connecting with her father, as dementia eroded his mind and took him away. If you can read this without wiping your eyes, I'll be very surprised.
It's really something, how the music issue has captured so many emotional connections for all of us writers. I really recommend it, and it's not just because I've got stuff in it.
This month's Karma Obscura article, Sweet Caroline, by Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, talks about how that song was just randomly chosen as the music for the seventh-inning stretch at Fenway Park, where the Boston Red Sox play. But what a life of its own it has achieved! So much, in fact, that singing it in other major league ballparks became a way for cities, teams, and fans to show the people in Boston how supported and cared for they were after the marathon bombings.
And perhaps even more moving, perhaps, is Nanette Morton's account (Nerd's Eye View: September in the Rain) of how the music of Dinah Washington became her last way of connecting with her father, as dementia eroded his mind and took him away. If you can read this without wiping your eyes, I'll be very surprised.
It's really something, how the music issue has captured so many emotional connections for all of us writers. I really recommend it, and it's not just because I've got stuff in it.