When I think of home, I think of coziness. Or just feeling so content with simply sitting on the couch with a cuppa tea. In short, when I think of home, I think of pure joy and elation.
Ahh... The infamous little yellow house. The epitome of "cozy".
So, before you go on with this post, open up YouTube in a different tab or window and crank these tunes for the ultimate toe-tapping homey reading experience :).
Home has always been a special topic to me. It’s a refuge, a place where you should feel the most comfortable. So it’s fitting that your home should make you feel safe and loved. Most of all, your home should be the one of the best representations of “you”!
Here are some homey-feeling rooms that I think are utterly amazing:
Hey ya’ll! How are you doing? Pretty dandy, I hope. I realize that I left a pretty snappy and abrupt little post a few days ago. Here is my apology present.
Justin and Michael are two of my favorite YouTube artists of all time because (a) their piano arrangements are AH-MAZE-ING. (b) their voices blend so well a smoothie might as well be singing. and (c) their videos are ingeniously hilarious (Mario Kart in the background WITH a tux? you just got me sold).
As if these two aren’t amazingly awesome on their own, If I Die Young is so ingeniously written that it makes my heart cringe with how good it is.
Hopefully your heart will feel the same way (in a good way of course)!
And yet here we are with the very thing I dread: a filler post. I’m not gonna lie to you, this post is sort of me freaking out because I haven’t had the decency (and, frankly, resources) to put out some good schtuff. Yes. I’m terribly sorry.
I have been late with song of the week (already), and I promise there is a good reason for that. With moving, settling in, and school starting, there’s quite a lot to be done. Plus, I don’t have a computer set up right now! Oops. So I’m typing this post on the WordPress iPad app, which has fairly limited features, hence me not writing anything worth reading.
Basically this is an apology. I hope those who read this have enjoyed what I have written so far! Thank you for that. On the other hand, I must warn that posts will not be as frequent for the next couple weeks. But once everything is settled and once I’m free enough to sit on my couch with a custard-filled chocolate donut and contemplate life, I promise there will be more writing.
I wish you all the comfort in the world plus a 25th hour,
Trish
Texting and internet chatting has become somewhat of an addiction these days. But oddly enough, the bug hasn’t really bitten me yet. And although I’m not much of a texter, I find great amusement in watching a conversation unfold on digital screen for pretty much one reason: text lingo.
I sometimes wonder about whether phone makers ever take a person's thumb size into consideration.
LOL, GTFO, OMG… Only a few capitalized letters long but these little buggers are how the people of my generation show the most profound emotion. Whether you are someone who does not understand this strange language or if you are someone like me who would rather carry on conversations as if you were in Hamlet, keep on reading to see text lingo decoded into words fit for Mr. Shakespeare himself.
LOL
I am guffawing with such piercing sound!!
TMI
I apologize, but that was quite a lot of knowledge you are outputting.
ASL
Excuse me, may I inquire your age? As well as your gender and where you are residing?
GTFO
I must ask you to promptly leave the premises.
OMG
By Jove!
I hope you enjoyed that :). For those that want even more sophisticated sounding language (or if you just want to laugh), check this out:
Imagine you are in a movie. You are in a scene where you are in the middle of a forest clearing, lying on your back, looking up at the streaks of sunlight while contemplating life’s course. Suddenly, a revelation comes. The audience doesn’t know yet what that revelation is, but you (in the movie, of course) jump up out of your little pensive stupor and run into the forest with a silly smile on your face as the camera fades and the movie continues.
I don’t know about you, but the perfect backing track for that scene would be this very song. Maybe it’s just because of the fact that the song is called “The Orchard”, or maybe it’s because of another reason entirely. I’ll let you come up with your own answer :).
The soundtrack of your life
The rhythm that keeps you breathing
Your heart beat.
We all have one.
It’s one of the things that make us all the same.
But what do you do when the beats of your drum
are torn between the songs of thousands
and the song of your soul?
Put your hand in mine.
A grandma's hand in mine (actually in my brother's).
There are 6.9 billion people on this earth.
6.9 billion pairs of eyes
6.9 billion heartbeats
and an infinity of decisions.
Just hopped on a bandwagon?
Question it.
Just created a hip beat?
Question it.
Ran ahead without stopping?
Question it.
Question everything because the world is a sea of heart beats
tugging and pulling at you telling you to join in
and create either catchy verses or syncopated harmonies.
Currents will try to carry you off
but don’t let it merely pull you.
Decide to swim along with it
or swim the other way
using your gut as your propeller.
To tired of drumming
or swimming against the tide?
With your hand in mine I will lift you from this strife.
But latch your fingers only if you care,
for this song isn’t for me.
It’s for your heart, your prayer.
Birds of a feather flock together
in this world where we’re all different, together.
So put your hand in mine
because alone you can fly
but together we can soar.
Soar above the trees and through the clouds
never looking back and never looking down
making loop-de-loops and drawing fantasies in the clear blue skies
But if not, that’s okay
I’ll be waving to you from the shorelines
singing you songs of sweet victory
confident that your decision can move mountains
Just promise me this:
Swim as far as you can
with your life’s song beating loudly
spelling out confidence
saying, “Hey! I’m swimming for you.”
Make sure that once you arrive
you shake the hand of every smiling heart
telling them of your journey
telling them that you swam for the right reasons
that you swam because the rhythm told you to
Promise me that when all the other hearts fade
you’ll look across the ocean towards the horizon
knowing that I’m on that shoreline hundreds of miles away
still singing that lullaby.
And promise me you’ll come back
and bring me my heartbeat when you do.
Gregory and the Hawk’s Boats and Birds covered by Trish.
This is the first endeavor I have ever made into the world of recording. I admit, not the cleanest recording and/or mixing job but this is the first time I ever thought that I could actually have a chance to make music for a living.
Boats and Birds is such a beautiful song both lyrically and musically. So much so that I had to try to cover it (also in part because it was really easy to play, but shh… I didn’t say that).
Yes, words. Specifically, words that have the innate power to move mountains and crush glass hearts. Poetry.
On week numero dos in the journey of finding out what all this is about, I introduce to you my essential list of poetry!
I Went to the Woods… by Henry David Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Okay. I cheated right off the bat. This isn’t really a poem; it’s an excerpt from Mr. Thoreau’s Walden. But, this poem/excerpt/blurb is written quite beautifully and has become one of my life’s mantras.
2. A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me by Derrick Brown
Derrick Brown is one of my favorite poets to date. He is one of the people that sucked me into the wonderful art of spoken word. Here are some other utterly amazing poems of his: Meatloaf and Church of the Broken Axe Handle.
3. B by Sarah Kay
Miss Kay’s words are so elegantly beautiful. They aren’t as power punchy as Derrick’s but they have that growing warmth that make you feel all… nice (for lack of a better word. But I mean nice in the most amazing way possible).
4. Mockingbird Remix by Rives
This poem is so cleverly worded. So much so that it makes me cry because of how genius and multi-emotionally faceted it is. Witty yet deep, funny yet profound; Rives puts into words exactly how much sound, music, and simplicity means to me.
5. Shake the Dust by Anis Mojgani
Come closer. Anis Mojgani has a way of pulling you in with his deeply relatable words. Some of y’all might have heard Shake the Dust; it is one of his most famous poems. It’s easy to see why: it speaks to the underdogs. It gives hope to those of us that feel like we can’t.
6. The Information Man by Buddy Wakefield
To me, this poem is all about discovery. Discovering where you’re going, discovering what you believe in, discovering yourself. What I love about this is that he doesn’t act like he has all the answers. Buddy’s a dude on a journey to finding where this all leads just like the rest of us, therefore making this poem the perfect anthem for this blog.
Okay then, I hope at least one of these poems spoke to you in some way or form. May you have an amazing existence.