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November 8, 2006
Me Lucky Charms
I've been working on my "labor music", compilations of songs that I hope keep me from throwing things and cursing like a sailor during childbirth. I've noticed that I keep coming back to celtic music. I do love me some Irish music.
What is it about Irish music that is so heartbreaking? The haunting melodies sung in the clearest, sweetest voices- it's almost unbearable. You can hear centuries of history in the notes, the struggles and endurance of the Irish people translated into stanzas. Great loves, great wars, great losses... they are immortalized in the anthems of Irish ballads.
But for the saddest, sweetest lullabies, they also produce some of the happiest, merriest tunes that lift the heart. Stomping jigs that invigorate, that compel at the very least, a smile and a tap of your foot, and at the most, a chug of Guinness and a humorous attempt to become the next Lord of the Dance. Nothing says celebration and love of life quite like an Irish song.
The Irish people aren't afraid to feel through their music, and it's one of the things that makes their songs timeless and universal. It never fails to move me in some way. I'm hoping that the happy feelings it invokes can reach through the challenges of labor as well. I may even wear green for luck.
Anyway... that's my random ending thought for the day. I'm off to bed, where I am sure to dream of pink hearts, yellow moons, and orange stars. Oh, and green clovers, of course.
Nighty night.
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And what is it about Irish novels that have got to be The Most Depressing Things Ever Written!
They sure do love their melancholy.
Have fun with the labor music. But be careful not to put something on there that will be ruined forever because of its association with childbirth. I'm just saying...it's a possibility...
Posted by: Jeannette at November 9, 2006 3:45 PM
