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Sorry for the LATE post y’all!! Turns out vacation kicked our butt last week and we are going to stay close to home this week recovering ❤️‍🩹 Here is a picture of me panic buying all of the things on vacation 🤦🏼‍♀️ We are all okay, just need extra rest and recovery time! I am anxious to get back to Music Play Dates so stay tuned for an update coming soon 🎶🎶🎶

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Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” with Brandi Carlile Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 24, 2022 Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” with Brandi Carlile Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 24, 2022

Check your email for this weeks update 📧 There will be no music play dates this week. I will miss making music with you, but can’t wait to see you the first week of August 🎶

See you under the trees at Lakeshore Park @ 10am 🎶🎶🎶 Bring a blanket and come make music with me!

Hello Music Makers!! I’m changing the time for this week’s Music Play Dates!
You can find me at Farragut Town Hall Park, Monday
And Lakeshore Park, Tuesday

Visit the link in my bio to sign up for future emails and updates on Music Play Dates 🎶🎶🎶

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When I was a kid I used to think that music was what kept me alive, kind of like oxygen. I couldn’t think straight without it.

What I now know I meant is that I was constantly, every waking moment, stimming rhythmically so that I could focus. And without the rhythms, I could do NUTHING!

I still do it.

I am constantly, every single moment of my entire waking life making rhythms. Whether it be following shapes with my eyes and counting them in groups of 3’s or 4’s, pressing my toes in time to an imaginary waltz, pushing air back and forth between my teeth in complex rhythmic loops, clenching muscles on alternating legs on repeat, humming Melody’s, twitching muscles/tapping fingers/rocking/moving eye balls to a repetitious beat.

It’s a constant.

The reason music gives me life is because when I experience music? All of this stops. The music IS the sensory input my brain seeks.

When I listen to hip hop I don’t need to count.

When I move to music I don’t need to clench my muscles.

When I sing I don’t need to do the air-pushing-teeth thing.

When I play guitar I don’t need to tap my fingers.

Music doesn’t just give context to my stims, it replaces them.

And as much as I love and embrace a good stim, outsourcing that regulatory need (to Spotify or my guitar) is so deeply refreshing.

As an adult, I can look back on my child self and see *exactly* why I thought music was like oxygen.

Because, it literally is!

Mindful reminder this morning ✌🏻