Many the Miles

Okay so I'm a huge fan of Sara Bareilles and her music. One of my favorite songs of hers is a song called Many the Miles and I always wanted to know why and what inspired her to write this song. Today I read her myspace blog and found out what her inspiration was and I thought I should share it with you all.
Sara writes:

So I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to keep going in search of love and truth and light and it remains to be and ideal I love to stay connected to.
I suck at it a lot of the time actually, to be honest. I get bitchy, and bored, and irritable, and uninspired and I spend a lot of energy on what i don't like about myself. But at the end of a good day I can take solace in the fact that I am someone who truly wants to be peaceful. Who knows I have the capacity to be truly happy. Not every moment of everyday... but sometimes, and if I'm really committed... a lot of the time.
I don't want to settle for less.
And i wish that for every single one of you. That when you look at your life you gravitate towards what feeds your soul and the people that make you feel inspired and content and beautiful (on the inside, silly). That you give yourself permission to be flawed and imperfect and "lesser than". Know that we all are. I promise. We just don't like to admit it.

So that's my rant for today.
As I cross the miles to get to our destination, I want to send you all little boxes of light that make you feel courageous and perfect. Just in being who you are.
So there.

xoxo
sara


Thank you Sara for that reminder. :) I really needed to read that after this week. :) You can check out the full post and her other blog posts on her myspace blog page at http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=15637801&blogID=483526660

Goodbye...

Thank you for your answers and honesty. :) I appreciate it. It's water under the bridge. I hope you find what you're looking for... :)



Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do
I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much
than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

CHORUS
Set me free, leave me be.
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall,
just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

CHORUS
Set me free, leave me be.
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall,
just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

I live here on my knees as I
try to make you see that you're
everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe
though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know
is that you're keeping me
down.

You're keeping me down

You're onto me
You're onto me
and all over

Something always bring me back to you
It never takes too long


***For those of you concerned, this post has nothing to do with my husband or our relationship. Our relationship is wonderful and we totally and completely love each other. This post is for someone else.

Winter Song

Today is the first day of my Christmas Break! :) I'm completely loving the thought that I don't have to be at work today and that I have 2 weeks off. ;) So now I'm at home, warm, and watching the snow fall outside. It's relaxing and comforting. Suzy (the giant beast of a dog) even woke up from her hibernating to watch the snow fall outside.
I found another Winter Song I like. (Surprise, surprise.) While surfing the YouTube I stumbled on a song called Winter Song by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson. It is so beautiful and perfect to listen to on a blustery day like this. I can't embed it into this post or else I would. But please go to the YouTube address below and watch it.
I think this song is my anthem for December. For so long, even though Christmas was right around the corner, it seemed so distant. The tree wasn't up, I didn't want anything for Christmas, it just felt all wrong.
I LOVE Christmas and it's my favorite time of year. In fact I practically live for this holiday. But this year nothing really seemed right. Every time I listened to Christmas music or when I went shopping for gifts, I felt like I was trying to make myself get into the Christmas spirit. I completely felt like the girls do at the beginning of this music video.
Because we were both really busy with everything else going on around us, I felt like I was constantly running on a treadmill all by myself.
This weekend that all changed. How or why I'm not sure. Really I don't know. Sorry. But everything just fell into place and it all seemed right. I woke up in a good mood. I found that one heart flower and everything around it bloomed for me (you have to watch the video to understand). I don't know how I found it but I did.

It's feels like Christmas now. The tree is up. Almost all of our friends are in town and our family is coming this way soon.
Love is alive. :)

Watch Winter Song by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUO0gd7cr9o

Merry Christmas everyone.

Love,
Bethany