♡Music♡

Everyone should start the day with dancing and tea. And end the day with walks and Tchaikovsky and kisses.

I believe that music truly has healing properties on life. Music that resonates with a you can completely change your mood and outlook on everything and in my opinion, good music makes you a better person.

Studies have shown that music releases endorphins in the brain which counteracts pain and has a longterm effect on overall happiness. Many hospitals are beginning to use music therapy as a complement to anesthesia during childbirth.

Music also decreases levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol. Lower levels of cortisol can improve immune health.

I don't really know much about music/human anatomy/brain waves/anything but I also believe that music enhances emotional/spiritual health. Music helps us make connections between ourselves and nature and other people and other places and helps us realize that we aren't alone or that we are alone (whichever you prefer).

Music to dance to:

• Grimes
• The Vaccines
• M.I.A.
• Kindness
• Stepdad
• Surfer Blood
• Tchaikovsky
• MGMT
• Davidian
• Denver
• your own thoughts

Music to cry to:

• you can cry to everything
• Crying Nut
• Nagisa Ni Te
• Sugar Plant

Guide to Life:

• The Smiths
• Lykke Li
• The Shins
• Horse Feathers
• Patti Smith
• Lady of The Sunshine
• Tablo

(and more that I can't think of right now!!!)

Pearls

Recently, in English, we have been writing short stories. My first idea for the assignment did not work out so instead I wrote a short poem inspired by it. Here it is:

Pearls

a sea-girl drifts asleep upon a watery bed.

light cascades in ribbons

through her tangled hair.

each strand a thread of silk in a crystal cup.

she lies coiled around green weeds,

and through her troubled slumber,

cries softly from salt-glistened eyes

tears of pearls,

which form rounded mounds

upon the sandy floor.

so the world isn't ending I guess

So I'm pretty sure that the world isn't going to end next Friday, no matter how much I wish it would. According to NASA, "the world will not end in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."

Here is the article.

I can't say I'm truly disappointed because I didn't actually ever believe that the sun would really go out on Dec. 21st or that the Earth would experience a polar shift so drastic that it would cause a flurry of natural disasters. I merely fantasized about disappearing in a flash of white light along with the rest of the planet and hopefully being reborn as a rock on Neptune or something like that. 

Rocks have no burdens. They simply exist. And some rocks are beautiful like crystals or gems and some rocks are stars or meteors. Over time they are worn down into grains of sand whirling around in space until lots of grains build up each other to make new rocks. Planets all started out as just one little grain of sand. 

Thinking about the end of the world triggers me a little. Instead, I'll write an optimistic list:

Why I Am Glad The World Probably Won't End:

1. I haven't seen Lykke Li live
2. My mom owes me 8 dollars
3. I want to grow taller
4. I need to practice doing splits because I can only do the splits with my left leg forward, not right
5. never kissed a boy! me! never! nope! 
6. I want to try every flavor of cake in the whole world 
7. My other blog has 350 followers 
8. Living isn't so bad if you pretend you are a tree or some other plant
9. there are so many pretty things to see on Earth
10. I want to grow up and get a job and live in nyc or tokyo or paris or shanghai and buy expensive clothes and be kind of sad but still happy
11. I want to live to see scientists discover mermaids

poem #2

ten pruned fingers lie palms to the sky

on hard white marble.

the cold no longer induces a shivery gasp.

instead, sadness percolates

until the heart overflows 

and a dull lambency 

seeps out the ears.

i wrote a poem ok

wan face and brittle knees

arms outstretched and honey bees

she yearned for the moon

writhing through toxic mist

for the azure empyrean

that did not exist