words and happy feet

Sometimes I get so tired of words. (I know it seems ironic since I have to use them to tell you what I'm feeling about them!)  I feel bombarded all day long by them and some of them are very hard to process. With all the new technology and access to words I just feel overwhelmed!  It doesn't really matter what the words are or mean, I'm just tired of them in general.

When this begins to happen to me I have found two very good places of refuge.  The first place is the place I go least often but in reality the most important.  Silence...turn off the radio, get away from the computer and cell phone, find a comfortable chair (or a bed for that matter) close my eyes and just be still (but not sleeping.  That's like cheating.)  It isn't really silent however but it is "wordless."  You have heard the phrase, "the silence was deafening."  Perhaps that's the ringing I hear in my ears when everything else is quiet.  I don't have a clue what that ring is but when I try to just sit silently I can hear it so clearly.

The second refuge is wordless smooth jazz!  Classical music would work too but it's too slow for me most of the time and could put me to sleep.  Smooth Jazz!  Yes, upbeat, happy sounding and awesome.  I don't want wordless pieces of written songs because if I'm familiar with it the words start flying through my head and I'll start to sing along.  Nobody wants to hear me sing along with anything, trust me on this!  Pandora Radio is a pleasant discovery because I can "thumbs up" the ones I like and hear more of that type.  My most recent thumbs up is by David Sanborn and titled Chicago Song.  As I wrote on my Facebook, "listening to to this song gives me happy feet!

These two places of refuge help me the most when I'm feeling in the mood to get away from words.  They have also been a refreshing place to go when feeling the hurts from facing times of crisis.