Meant to Shine

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

by Marianne Williamson

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Day 09: A Song that You Can Dance To

Heydie, heydie, hey friends,

I am all out of creative ways to say that I suck at this challenge. But I will trudge on, and eventually I will get to Day 30. This is going to have to be a quick post, I have class in forty minutes. But I was reading the blogging chapter in my journalism textbook and I [being the extraordinary procrastinator that I am] wanted to blog. I know that you missed me.

Welcome to Day 09 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, today's song is one that I can dance to [Side Note: I can't dance. So, technically I have no real answer to this question. But if we lived in Hypotheticaland, I would be able to dance and would have a song that I can dance to. So for the purpose of completing the 30 Day Song Challenge, today, I live in Hypotheticaland.] As a temporary Hypotheticalian, the song that I can dance to is...

"You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates. There is no denying the inexplicable charm of this song. I could listen to it on repeat fifty times in a row, and would not be able to resist the urge to awkwardly wiggle-dance around my room. [But I suppose today, it would be a less than awkward wiggle-dance.] If in public when this song comes on, I can usually restrain the wiggle-dancing. But I have caught myself strutting around TJ Maxx to the beat and dancing in the shadow of the shoe aisles. This song is clearly not helping me maintain my social acceptability, but I love it anyway. You have not experienced this song in its full glory until you have seen the post-sex-morning scene in "500 Days of Summer." That scene may play a large part in my love for Hall & Oates.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJoIaXZ0rw

TIme to go. Journalism on the Screen awaits. Here's to wiggle-dancing, temporary citizenship in the land of the hypothetical, and strange urges to blog. Ta-ta.
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