10 Songs from the Ditch

1. Get Me-Everything But the Girl
2. Delicate-Damien Rice
3. Case of You-Joni Mitchell
4. Colorblind-Counting Crows
5. This Time-Jonathan Rhys Meyers
6. You and Me-Neil young
7. Save Me-Olivia Broadfield
8. I was just Thinking-Teitur
9. After the Storm-Mumford & Sons
10.Love Song-Jonatha Brooks

These are the songs I listen to when I am in the ditch....you know when life feels like its going to hell in a hand basket.

10 Songs

I should preface this post by saying this is not my all time top ten list. That kind of list doesn't exist. My music selection is an ever revolving door. Some of the songs have been with me since I remember my mother first spinning Joni Mitchell on vinyl at age thirteen. Some of the songs are fairly new additions. All of the songs I play loud over and over again in my car. They are my mood setters, my sanity grabbers, my outlet, my peace of mind. Do you have a top ten list? ok,ok I realize I am going to need to do this by genre. First up: folk

1. Can't Find My Way Home-Blind Faith
2. Conversation-Joni Mitchell
3. Althea-Grateful Dead
4. Still Can't Feel the Gin-Ray Lamontagne
5. Pink Moon-Nick Drake
6. Trouble-Cat Stevens
7. Danny's Song-Loggins & Messina
8. Nothing Last Forever-Brett Dennen
9. Places-Blue Merle
10.Love Song-Jonatha Brooks
Bonus Song: If You Could Read My Mind-Gordon Lightfoot

Honestly, I could just keep going and going......

The Narwhal and Me

I can relate to this guy. He is a Narwhal and if you are in my preschool class, you know all about this whale. His tusk is actually an overgrown incisor tooth. For a long time the tusk was a mystery. Leave it to National Geographic to get to the bottom of it. They discovered the tooth is used like an instrument. It is so sensitive that it can detect barometric pressure, change in salinity, location of fish, and migration patterns. It was once thought the narwhal used the tusk to fight each other. A dentist discovered they rub tusks together as a way of brushing their teeth and it is not an aggressive gesture at all. They are deep divers and nearly impossible to track. They are spotted in the Arctic but it is unclear where they go from there. Scientist are unable to navigate the ice and can not get close enough to tag them. We have no idea where they migrate to. I find comfort in this. It makes me happy to think this creature is virtually untouched by man. I guess it represents that some things are still sacred. I want to dive deep where no one can track me.