A Change Will Do You Good

I found a nice little article on change yesterday at MSN.com. I can't attribute it to anyone since there was no byline, but I thought it was worth thinking about and, therefore, worth passing along to my part of the internet void. And, since it's almost a new year (and since after the week I've had, I'm considering changing my career to goat herder), I thought everyone might benefit.

...no one can help you with the biggest challenge—the challenge of letting go of the old before you can grab hold of the new. That’s the scary part of making any change, and it is yours alone to do. It’s usually the point where we beat a hasty retreat back to what “is,” thinking that the certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty. At some point we have to step into, and be suspended in, the void between releasing the old and embracing the new. The proverbial “leap of faith” has to be taken.

Har!

I was cleaning out my inbox when I found the following. It's a song (although it reads like poetry) by Josh Ritter, I think. Anyway, it's funny and worth the read if you're bored and wishing Christmas vacation had already started. Enjoy...

Since You’ve Gone
Well there's one thing mama
I think you should know.
It is not love that makes the flowers grow,
but a complex electron transfer process known as photosynthesis
when chlorofyll reacts to the light of day.
But since you're gone the light has gone away.

Well there's one more thing mama
I think you will find.
It is not love that makes the stars shine,
but the spontaneous combustion of super-heated, super-condensed gasses
in a process known as fusion that creates new elements when the time is right.
But since you're gone the stars don't shine so bright.

Well there's another thing mama
I think I should confide.
It is not love that'll turn the tide,
but the net difference in the gravitational pull between the earth and the moon
as it is acted out upon the waves.
But since you're gone I feel washed away.

I could've been a mathmatician,
studied rockets for a livin',
would've worked out better in the end.
But to get more specific,
I'd break every law of physics to bring you back to me again.

Well there's one more thing
I'll tell you if I can.
It is not love that makes a non-stick frying pan,
but a top secret trademark conglomerated,
most likely carcinogenic polyeurothane compound
spreading of microthin substance over a negatively charged layer
of aluminum, copper, iron, lead, vhs, fyi, apple pie, FBI,
and some other elements too.
But since you're gone I wish I'd stuck to you.

I wonder if I can find out where Lloyd Dobl...I mean John Cusack lives?

Watch out Chicago! This hot girl is comin' to your town to heat things up in January...

An Ode to Winter

Ok, not so much an ode as a song, a song that is only peripherally about winter. So whatever...But, it does have what is at this moment my favorite lyric -Your name is the splinter inside me. So descriptive, and yet so simple. This is the kind of thing that people who write, wish they wrote.

I should know who I am by now
I walk the record stand somehow
Thinkin' of winter
Your name is the splinter inside me
While I wait

And I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wake

The walk has all been cleared by now
Your voice is all I hear somehow
Calling out winter
Your voice is the splinter inside me
While I wait

I could have lost myself
In rough blue waters in your eyes
And I miss you still
"Winter" Josh Radin

The whole winter theme reminds me (I'm not sure why) of my quest to make a CD that has the names of all the months of the year. Strangely enough, although I've been able to think of some fall and winter songs - spring and summer, not so much. Here's all I have so far:

"September" Earth, Wind and Fire
"November Rain" GNR (rock!)
"Long December" Counting Crows

And I could technically use this song and get November and December out of the way all at one time. But that's all I can think of. I think that John Mayer might have a song with some months in it, but maybe not, maybe it's just holidays. Can anyone help me out?

Snow...

...YAY!