Music and Memories

Music and memories go together like salt and pepper
One complements the other
One triggers the other
Listening to a song can easily transport one back to a memory or time
A certain memory can bring back a certain feeling
It’s as if one stepped into a time machine to relive that moment
Music can also inspire, ignite and calm the soul
It can heal ones wounds and evoke strong feelings
Music can take me back to a sweet memory of my father shoveling the snow outside during a winter storm
Or my father taking my hand as a small boy to enter a French ceremony three decades ago
Or to remember a colleague playing a song by the Fugeess in the fatory one Friday morning to help start the day
Music and memories inspire our lives to be so much more like an artists’ painting.

I'm into Rap, RnB Soul,and to say my favorite song of all time is Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac

You know what makes me unhappy? When brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up?
I know you're fed up, ladies, but keep your head up

A verse/line from the song Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac