Dancing at a school dance with my first boyfriend when we were first getting to know each other. the refrain "I've got a feelin' I'm in for somethin' good" followed us around the dance floor. Don't ask me who it was by, or the name of the song--I just remember hearing those words and thinking it was an omen. I loved the song.
I’m very happy you did too, Claire. I’m honestly not sure how common a practice it is, but I’m very much hoping to spread the memory journaling joy. I launch my first course on the subject this week. If you’re at all interested, watch this space!
I love this, so many evocative songs and moments I could share. Just in case you'd like to get a taster of my musical journey, here's a dialogue from my book that I recently adapted for a post:
I've got a longer piece on this topic on the backburner for a future post or two, and I kid you not, I have a long-running Word document titled 'soundtrack of my life'!
On the topic of nostalgia in general, with plenty of great music stuff, I highly recommend The Nostalgia Project, one of my favourite Substacks:
I recently wrote about Bowie (in a post on core values) as he’s a personal hero of mine for his fearless creativity. I love what his music evokes for you!
Hey, Joy! I’ll have to seek out your Bowie article. Yes, he’s someone I come back to consistently in every decade of my life. He was a freaking genius. I’ve been known to have Hunky Dory playing on repeat when I’m on a deadline and I’ll always be hugely grateful to Lizzie for introducing me to him and breaking me out of my musical silo. I really must tell her that ...
My parents subjected me to Mario Lanza, Ravel’s Bolero and Mantovani. I rebelled by listening to the Stones, the Who, ELP, Deep Purple and Lynryd Skynyrd, to name a few. I still listen to them now but I also enjoy a much wider range of music. It’s definitely nice to have memories triggered by certain songs.
I love this so much Miranda... songs are like scents aren’t they, they can trigger whole streams of recollections and usually they are filled with profound and often forgotten meaning.!
Now I want to dig out all my old music and see what floats with the notes into mind..! 🤍🎶🎵x
Dancing at a school dance with my first boyfriend when we were first getting to know each other. the refrain "I've got a feelin' I'm in for somethin' good" followed us around the dance floor. Don't ask me who it was by, or the name of the song--I just remember hearing those words and thinking it was an omen. I loved the song.
Now I want to hear the song, Suzanna! If you ever find out what it was, please tell me. x
Memory journalling is new to me. So happy I stumbled on this post.
I’m very happy you did too, Claire. I’m honestly not sure how common a practice it is, but I’m very much hoping to spread the memory journaling joy. I launch my first course on the subject this week. If you’re at all interested, watch this space!
I love this, so many evocative songs and moments I could share. Just in case you'd like to get a taster of my musical journey, here's a dialogue from my book that I recently adapted for a post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/danielpuzzo/p/oh-susannah?r=1qdu9h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I've got a longer piece on this topic on the backburner for a future post or two, and I kid you not, I have a long-running Word document titled 'soundtrack of my life'!
On the topic of nostalgia in general, with plenty of great music stuff, I highly recommend The Nostalgia Project, one of my favourite Substacks:
https://substack.com/@faithliversedge
Thanks, Daniel! I’ll save these come back to in the morning. Good to connect. 🙂
I recently wrote about Bowie (in a post on core values) as he’s a personal hero of mine for his fearless creativity. I love what his music evokes for you!
Hey, Joy! I’ll have to seek out your Bowie article. Yes, he’s someone I come back to consistently in every decade of my life. He was a freaking genius. I’ve been known to have Hunky Dory playing on repeat when I’m on a deadline and I’ll always be hugely grateful to Lizzie for introducing me to him and breaking me out of my musical silo. I really must tell her that ...
The Bowie stuff is way down in this post: https://open.substack.com/pub/shriekingcactus/p/finding-joy-1-what-are-my-core-values?r=1zwm0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
This is such a wonderful idea, I have never tried this type of journaling before. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Emily. Are you an avid journaller in other forms? I’m fascinated by how many different approaches there are.
I do! I love journaling, I've started to use prompts more recently but I love the idea of using music or sounds as inspiration.
Great post! I’m going to go digging through my CD collection now 😀🎵
Fabulous! I hope you’ll let me know what emerges from the CD pile, Mark?
My parents subjected me to Mario Lanza, Ravel’s Bolero and Mantovani. I rebelled by listening to the Stones, the Who, ELP, Deep Purple and Lynryd Skynyrd, to name a few. I still listen to them now but I also enjoy a much wider range of music. It’s definitely nice to have memories triggered by certain songs.
Ohhhh how I adore this! If I were to start listing all the reasons why, we’d be here all day but I felt aaaaall of this oh sooooooooooooo deeply. 🥹🙏🏻🪄
You mean you don’t have all day, Suzy? What are you? Human? 🙃 So happy to have you here, my friend.
😁✨🪄🤸🏼♀️
I love this so much Miranda... songs are like scents aren’t they, they can trigger whole streams of recollections and usually they are filled with profound and often forgotten meaning.!
Now I want to dig out all my old music and see what floats with the notes into mind..! 🤍🎶🎵x