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Feeling the Rainbow

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Have you ever seen a gorgeous rainbow in the sky...that was only one color?  A beautiful, calm shade of violet.  One color.  Always the same. Of course you haven't!  Rainbows are meant to have all eight colors of the spectrum...Roy G. Biv.  Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.  (My momma taught me that.)  And I've discovered that our emotions are a lot like rainbows - meant to be experienced with the entire spectrum in tact.  Happy, sad, angry, surprised, silly, content, frustrated, and a long list of others.  I started taking antidepressants many years ago to help me through a 'rough time'.  Not only did taking medication not help...I largely attribute the medication with making things even worse.  And what typically happens when a dose of medication isn't helping the way 'they' think it should?  They change medications or increase the dose.  Maybe both, as was my case. I settled in to a 'comfortab...

A Song in My Heart

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Music speaks the language of the soul.  Victor Hugo once said that "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words, but on which it is impossible to remain silent."  Yep.  That about sums it up. Music is everywhere.  Our phones are like little juke boxes in our pockets.  I love my Pandora app.  It lets me choose stations to listen to based on a particular genre, artist or song.  You can give the song a 'thumbs up' and that song will play more frequently on your station, or you can give it a 'thumbs down' which will remove it from the station completely.  After a few 'ups and downs' your station becomes very customized to your liking.  It's brilliant!  My "Christian Contemporary Radio" station is just about perfected. My husband and son like country music (and so do I), but if you listen to the words, it would seem that all women have long tan legs, ripped-up, tight-fitting jeans, and we all dream of marrying a country boy ...