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 25, 2011

Day 11: A Song from Your Favorite Band

Aloha, [I am clearly running out of creative greetings.]

For some reason I am so excited about writing right now. I just want to write. So here I am, writing [to you [on Day 11 [of the 30 Day Song Challenge [I apologize. [I had coffee.]]]]] Today's theme is a song from my favorite band, which is incredibly tricky because I've used so many of them already. But I have narrowed it down to...

"Little Lion Man" by Mumford & Sons. Before you go accusing me of being a hipster/poser/ignorant by picking Mumford & Songs, but choosing their biggest hit to date, I have two points to make: 1) I own the entire Mumford & Sons album, I love every song, they all have over twenty plays on my iTunes. I chose "Little Lion Man" because it kicks ass. That's it. 2) Never in my life have I claimed to be indie and edgy or even remotely tasteful musically. I'm just not. I listen to music that I like, whether it has 3,000,000,000 downloads on iTunes or 4. I appreciate well crafted, well performed, soul-shattering, award-winning music. I also own the entire Teenage Dream album, simply because it's fun. [Long, run-on sentence tangent over.]

I adore Mumford & Sons because they are so raw. You can here the scratching of the acoustic guitar and the growl in his throat. They sound untouched, untarnished by the pop music trends of today. It's amazing, Mumford & Sons manages to be both an undiscovered treasure and a national sensation, and their only album came out just over a year ago. And banjo is fantastic.

It's fairly obvious that high caffeine levels were involved in the making of this blog. I'm going to be done now. Here's to coffee at 10:00 at night, banjos and hipsters. Night.
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