A song and a head bop remind us….

With both ears plugged and the bass pumping, I am sitting behind my laptop doing some gender analysis while listening to some “Groove Theory” and bopping my head.  How do I manage to read a serious document, write and bop at the same time you may ask?  The answer is simple:  music and dance combined (because a head-bop is a dance too) is one of my happy places.  So is anything gender-related.  So, I am in my zone. 

I didn’t realize that I had a smile plastered across my face until the song was almost finished.  It was in this instance that I was prompted to write this piece, and I literally paused my work to do so.  It had me thinking how easily it is for us to forget the little things that make us smile – truly smile from the core of who we are.  You know the kinda smile that makes your soul feel light despite the crap that attempts to break you?  The troubles that present themselves in the form of human beings who try to break us are liars from the pit of hell designed to let us feel hopeless in a sea of hopefulness.   

When the events designed to break us present themselves, we have to dig deep into the recesses of who we are and whose we are and be reminded of that thing – that one thing  (that is easily accessible in the moment) – that makes us light up, like the people of a higher being we are – and sit, stand or dance in that space.  These little things are created for a reason.  They are little things designed to remind us… they are those things that are not hard to get, because they are there just waiting on us to access them when the evil of life attempts its trickery. 

As I advance the gender analysis, I have also moved on to Hindley Street Country Cover Band featuring Kat Jade (Aint Nobody cover) and my shoulders now accompany my head bop and smile, and I am as light as a feather (at least my mind is), because I am present in the things I TRULY love – music, dance, and writing…..

To the person who needs to hear this, take a moment and rediscover that thing that makes your soul smile….that thing that doesn’t require reliance on anyone else….that thing that regardless of who or what is around would still exist.

I have now transferred the computer stand to its standing position and have incorporated an actual dance into the routine, so you know my happy is at its next level.  To be honest, I am now on my third dance break.  The point is that we each have that thing that is within us that brings us some amount of peace.  Be reminded that it is yours to access and use whenever you so choose, because it is your thing!

Later peeps… I’m gone back to my gender business, two body rolls and the Earth, Wind and Fire that has just started to play…. (this song requires two fast claps and three feet stomps), so bye!

PS:  Put in your earphones, turn the music up, sing along/dance, smile, and drown out whatever manifestation of soul-disturbing oxygen-thief that may come your way…. (or whatever is your version of this).

…..Next on the line-up is “Return of the Mack”. 

A yah so nice!