Elvis Costello said once in a song that the meaning of life would be hidden in some trashy paperback novel. So…I keep looking. Kind of ridiculous, I know… but you never know.

Thanks to the wondermous cuteoverload I discovered this wonderful book and contest which allows DooDoo his fifteen minutes of fame. So now without any further ado…. my dirty wow wow…

This is DooDoo Doggy he is about to turn 30 this year… and frankly, though cool, calm and collected on the outside- he is bit nervous about the whole thing. DooDoo was a present from my grandfather. He has held up fairly well… though he hasn’t had ears in a long time and he has a few scars from surgery… oh and he doesn’t really sit up anymore 🙂 He has been well loved and continues to travel about with me today.

If your life were a soundtrack, what would the music be?

Here’s how it works:
1. open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod)
2. put it on shuffle
3. press play
4. for every question, type the song that’s playing
5. new question– press the next button
6. don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool

This is mine:

Opening Credits:
Julia Dream- Pink Floyd Relics

Waking Up:
Mindscan- Dieselboy- System Upgrade

First Day At School:
You’ve Been Flirting Again- Bjork- Post

Falling in Love:
Nobody Wants to Know- Brian Perry- Intentionally

Breaking Up:
I Lie Still- Bitch and Animal- What’s that Smell?

Prom:
Newspaper- Various Artists- Hopelessly Devoted To You

Life’s Okay:
Get it While You Can- Janis Joplin- Greatest Hits

Mental Breakdown:
Skinburns- Magnapop- Hot Boxing

Driving:
Spit- Sepultura- Roots

Flashback:
Train Wreck- Sarah McLachlan- Bloom Remix Album

Getting Back Together:
Shopping- Barenaked Ladies- Everything to Everyone

Wedding:
Something Against You- Pixies- Surfer Rosa

Birth of a Child:
You Will Be Waiting- Barenaked Ladies- Maybe You Should Drive

Final Battle:
Birdhouse in Your Soul- They Might Be Giants- Flood

Death Scene:
Parakeet Protest Song- Danielle Howl- About to Burst

Funeral Song:
Blue Moon Revisited- Cowboys Junkies- The Trinity Sessions

End Credits:
Which Way to America- Living Color- Vivid

This was a fun to complete – made me revisit that feeling of junior high slumber parties when we would get out the Ouija Board.

I continue to be fascinated with this idea of home and where it is…. Yesterday morning I happened upon one of my favorite songs that seemed to speak to me in such a perfect way…. So please forgive me… if I’ve up and gone to Carolina in mind. And there is indeed something quite special to me about the blue of a Carolina sky, the sweet creamy smell in the morning of grass and honeysuckle and the beauty of a full moon rising over the ocean or perhaps just a pear tree in a back yard.

Mr. Paris Pigeon Pants and Making Peace with Progress – a novel-

The true story of a clandestine meeting between a girl and a pigeon in Paris- as captured in film by Jon Tillman. It is not a novel, but it should be, truly.

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A song written by a wonderful lady named Kelly Mitchell has become my most recent theme song. “Make peace with progress or get out of is way.” It is a harder lesson to learn than I initially thought, but I am getting there.

I feel a stretching and a growing and perhaps some reaching. What am I reaching for? That seems hard to say or pin down…. my ideas and notions about the world are being challenged, but not in a way that I am used to- it is not drastic or tragic- it is quiet and it could be ignored if I tried hard enough, but I don’t and so it is here just looking at me – wondering what I am going to do next.
I am making peace with progress… and learning as I go, but with each step- as often happens- I realize how much more there is to learn.

“The universe it made up of stories, not atoms.”  -Muriel Rukeyser

We learn and grow by telling our story and hearing the stories that other have to tell. Here’s to listening and sharing.

Thank you, Shimelle for pointing out the wondermous card generator.