Add joy to your soul with a new music venue.
I ordered a Jean Paul alto saxophone a week before Thanksgiving wondering if I would remember the keys, let alone read and play music.
But, the spark to play was ignited out of a desire to do something new and fresh for myself, family and friends.
Through an app called Tomplay, I found wonderful music and accompaniment for a holiday play list.
- What a Wonderful World
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Never My Love
- Swan Lake-Tchaikovsky
Merriment surrounded us before Thanksgiving dinner.
My 18-month-old grandnephew was swaying while family and friends were smiling.
Then, I started thinking how joy is launched by simply playing a new song.
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Playing your instrument at family gatherings adds a spark of joy.
Isn’t that the meaning of Christmas?
Your new song doesn’t have to be perfect.
Just play what you want to hear.
It summons the family to play too.
Have they seen this side of you?
I told my sister, Joy, to bring her keyboard.
She hasn’t played in years.
As soon as I started Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, she smiled matching basic chords to my melody and there we went!
Grandnephew Nathaniel jumped in playing the keys.
And then it snowballed.
Judy, my lovely wife, sat at my sister’s keyboard and started in with O Christmas Tree.
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That gave me an idea.
Buy Judy a digital piano!
A stellar career as travel writer for the Dallas Morning News and travel editor of the Houston Chronicle interrupted her piano years.
But, Thanksgiving lit a family revival!
She can’t stop playing!
A new song releases . . .
- joy
- energy
- creativity
into everyone around you.
The Creator, the greatest artist ever, favors what you do.
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order . . . the continuous thread of revelation.” Eudora Welty
What are your thoughts for a new song?
Move over David Sanborn! Great thoughts Steve. Thanks!
Thank you Brad!
This made me smile. I don’t play an instrument and so far, my singing hasn’t inspired the same reaction. But I will keep trying. Sometimes Doug and I sing together to the radio. He sings bass like the Church of Christ kid he was and I sing whatever it is that I sing. It hasn’t been identified as of yet.
Wish I could hear it!
Look at that talent shining thru!!!!!! Awesome Steve!
Working on it Jim! Thanks!
As always Steve, your thoughtful message’s seem to arrive when I need them – Thanks!
Let me know if you start playing bass. We’ll get together.