Waiting for No One: My Get-it-Together YouTube Playlist

I'm in kind of a Sunrise, Sunset mood today.  Probably all the time I've spent caring for my infant granddaughter lately.  Looking into that sweet little face, watching those little blues intently taking it all in, seeming wiser, and older, by the minute.

We probably can't afford the time to wallow in thoughts of its passing.  Maybe play these one at a time, as a reward for an hour well-used--whatever that means.  Or hit the link for the whole playlist, and think of it as a motivational soundtrack for doing some serious work.

Or just give up and wallow.

Playlist Time Songs on my YouTube Channel PutittoBed

1.   Time Waits for No One, by the Rolling Stones

2.   Time in a Bottle, by Jim Croce

3.   We May Never Pass This Way Again, by Seals and Crofts

4.   This Time, by The Verve

5.   Time, by Pink Floyd

6.   Bookends, by Simon and Garfunkel

7.   Days Go By, by Keith Urban

8.   Time, by Hootie and the Blowfish

9.  Life is Short, Butterfly Boucher

10. No Time, by the Guess Who

What songs would you add?

11 Random Happy Things for a Gray, Late-Winter Day

Random Happy Things:  The First Ten I Came Up With Today

1.  Only 8% of what we worry about ever happens.  (from Pick the Brain)

2.  Neil Pasricha (1000 Awesome Things) went from a personal trough to a prize-winning blogger and best-selling author in less than two years.  The Toronto Star called him the "guru of small joys."

3.  Brain plasticity--Apparently you can teach an old dog lots and lots of new tricks.

4.  The interactive website Things to be Happy About, authored by Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer, who wrote the book 14,000 Things to be Happy About.

5.  All the many things meditation is supposed to be good for, including learning to focus, hypertension, depression, ingrown toenails (just kidding on that one. . . I think), . . .

6.  This, making the rounds on Facebook:

 












7.  Finding this:

8. This lovely piece in the Huffington Post from two days ago:  "Groundhog Day:  Halfway Through Winter," by "urban shaman, eco-ceremonialist, ritual expert and consultant" Donna Henes. 

9.  Minimally invasive (laparoscopic) coronary bypass surgery, in case my arteries go the way of my parents' one day.

10.  Janine Jansen's recording of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, and the late Irish poet John O'Donohue's remarks, in conversation with On Being's Krista Tippet, on hearing it played live (about halfway through the interview)

11.  Sunsets everyday.  I once wrote a poem about a friend's husband, who "attended sunsets like gallery openings."  She divorced him anyway.  But still. . .