It’s February and, as they say, “love is in the air”. Or, as some say instead, “Love Is In Da Blog”.
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Sliding straight from one month-long blogging project to the next with
My first idea was to write about love and heartbreak. I’d only planned on a post or two on the subject, using music and song lyrics to help illustrate my thoughts, but recently I made the decision to devote the entire month of February to the topic. After all, I have enough wonderful music to make my feelings known, but then I found out about another of these blogging things, after participating all January in one to kick of 2016 with a little bit of a direction, as directionless as I was feeling.
I like these. They are not nearly as huge as some month-long challenges, which makes them a lot easier to manage and I like the nice size community of bloggers. It’s big but not overwhelming.
I usually have Memoir Monday on my blog, but for this month I will follow with
as I focus on the subject of learning to love oneself as a big part of February’s proceedings.
I will be returning with Memoir Mondays, starting in March, as I begin to write more about what was going on in my life, twenty years ago.
“It’s better to feel pain, than nothing at all. The opposite of love’s indifference.”
–The Lumineers
The month of February isn’t just about romantic love with Valentine’s Day in the middle. There’s also my birthday before and Family Day after. These two days are necessary reminders that there’s all sorts of love: love for myself and for my family.
I will try to make loving myself a priority, even with all the talk of prayer, validation, or meditation. I write. I write and I think I am mindful, but I can’t really say.
I discovered this Lumineers song recently, with the spectacular violin solo at the beginning, as one of the things I intend to do to celebrate my birthday next week is to learn a new skill, one I’ve been wanting to tackle for a while. I’m going to rent a violin and start taking lessons. Perhaps one day I can play along with the solo in this song.
That’s one part of paying attention and loving oneself that I do believe strongly in. I never want to stop learning, discovering, and finding new interests. I want to do this, for me. I want to always stubbornly follow my heart and listen to what its telling me, to do the things that will make me happy, when and wherever possible.
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Hi, thanks for taking part in “Love Is In Da Blog”. I can’t wait to find out more about the songs you like. I am not a big fan of the Lumineers, but that one sounds exciting. I will check it out. And love by all means can be stubborn. :-). Your goals to do more for yourself are wonderful. I feel the same about learning and discovering. That is why I have started an online course on mental health and reading, and I have that dream of starting to write song lyrics myself. For now, though I am occupied with the blog. Take care and have a great day 🙂
Thank you for reading. I know that Sundays are devoted to music and lyrics, but they are so much a part of me and this topic of love that I may include them, amongst other posts during the week.
That is perfectly fine. As I often say in the prompts: it is entirely up to you what you make of the prompts. #LoIsInDaBl is fun and freedom of expression no strict “we stick to the rules” event. Am so glad you are joining in 🙂
Oh I love that line and I do love Lumineers! Which song is it?
I’m looking forward to following you, I love music, too so I’m sure we’ll have some common ground 😉
It’s called Stubborn Love and I included a link to the song on YouTube in the post. I love reading others thoughts and feelings about the music they love. I will check out yours.
Sorry the link didn’t show up in my reader, apologies 💚
Oh no problem at all.
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