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What is your favorite genre of music?

I’m not a person of absolutes. The people I feel the most sorry for in this world are the people who take pride in being absolutely fixed in their opinions, beliefs, ways, likes, dislikes.

I’ve seen that hurt too many people.

I have favourite musicians, Barry Manilow and Sam Ryder are two, but that has a great deal to do with who they are. Light shines from them both.

I love Mozart, his music is like hearing water move through you. But I like some of Beethoven, and others. I’m no expert, I don’t need to be, I only need to know what moves me.

I may not be able to do that jump, I couldn’t touch my toes when I was four. I look stiff even when I’m at my most relaxed. But in my mind I have no absolutes. I like to flow through life noticing its effects, moving past what doesn’t move me. Gently and quietly.

I don’t need to let anyone know the error of their ways. That’s only my opinion. I try to look at the effect of politics on the psyche, rather than judging people doing a tremendously difficult job.

Which is why I’m cross with the recent Conservative Party, they nearly made me become an absolutist as I was absolutely disgusted by a number of them. That’s no way to let others make you ‘be’. Sunak is okay. We saw his decency yesterday, and Starmer’s.

I guess I’m saying that it doesn’t matter what the music is as long as it moves you in the right ways, as long as it fires up the soul and ignites the good emotions.

One of the few things I am absolute about is that:

Happiness rocks and we should seek it determinedly and protect it ruthlessly.

My advice? Flow through life like the most joyful music, and treat miserable people like a song that doesn’t resonate with you. Turn them off.

Superb Saturday

Deb xx