Weekend reads v. 3.5.2025
Music is magic.
In lieu of things to read this week, I’m sharing a few songs to listen to.
On Wednesday, I was driving to work and caught my bad mood in the act. Right there, in plain sight under a cloudless sky, my bad mood threatened to take my entire day hostage to grumpiness, rolling eyes, and despair. I told my bad mood, “That’s a hard no,” and I was able to change the channel in my mind from Gloomy to Encouraged simply by playing a song. Music magically did the trick of pushing that bad mood aside.
It's no wonder that bad mood showed up. This was one of those weeks that felt like two weeks balled up into one. Was it Tuesday when we held a retirement party on the roof and all got sunburned? Which day was the very difficult meeting? And when was it I wished I could take back something I said or did? Oh, that was every day! Right, right.
This morning, I woke up with a song clearly playing in my head. Maybe the tiny DJ who takes up space in my brain was reflecting on t…
