Please Don’t Stop the Music

 After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.                                 –Aldous Huxley

I have what some might call a “musical background.”  I grew up playing piano, started playing guitar and bass sometime around middle school, and have suffered from the notion that I am a singer for quite some time now.

Because of its consistent and everlasting presence in my own life, the way I think about music has always contained spiritual undertones.  It is healing, it centers me, and it provides an outlet for emotions that I honestly do not think I could express otherwise.  One sexy chord pattern from John Mayer does more for my soul than a thousand kind words.

I know I’m not alone in this.  Continue reading