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I Really Don’t Know Clouds At All

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I was going to insert a little poetry here, as I have the last two Saturdays, but I cannot look at a cloud without hearing the words of Joni Mitchell and then the voice of Joni Mitchell. Or Judy Collins.

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now,
from up and down, and still somehow,
it’s cloud’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all.

And so it goes. The melody, the lyrics, endlessly looping through my brain.

Do you have an ongoing bit of music playing in your head all the time? I do. I hear snatches of melodies, a bit of this, a bit of that, all the time.  If not music, it’s dialogue of some sort. It used to be when I had to transcribe lots of text into a dialect using phonetics, I would have a running transcription session endlessly playing in my brain. I would dream transcription. Same with typing on a keyboard. But it’s mostly music that is always there in the background and I’m often unaware of it until I focus for an instant and realize the same tune has been repeating itself over and over like the soundtrack to a movie. Or the soundtrack to my life.

I can’t be the only one this happens to, can I? I bet not.

In other news, I was looking at my hastily pinned up row of strips,

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and thought how like artwork they are. I pinned them (with sewing pins) to that wall just to see how they might look bordered by white fabric. But I’ve left them there because their bright colors make me happy and enliven a bland corner of the room.

Sort of a neat idea for a graphic splash in your home, don’t you think? Pin some strips of fabric to a wall and presto – you’ve got instant art.

I’m rather liking them here in this temporary living space. Such a wonderful punch of color.

Glory be, I get to go home for two days this afternoon! I have a morning rehearsal for Macbeth, then Don will arrive around 2 pm and we will make our way to the cottage. I have to be back on Monday night for a Tuesday morning rehearsal. That’s okay. I just need 48 hours or so with my little family.

I told Don to bring Scout along on the ride here because I simply cannot wait to see her. My plan is that Don and Scout will arrive, she can briefly come up to the apartment (she stayed here for 3 days in January and she loves the elevator) and we will take her for a walk in the park, which she really loves. Then we’ll pile in the car and head for Mockingbird Hill Cottage, where I will reacquaint myself with the now, I’m quite sure, overgrown garden, immediately decide that I need to weed-wack and, upon entering the cottage, see every surface that needs cleaning.

Happy Saturday.

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Comments

  1. Great news you get to go home. To bad you will have to weed wack and clean:( Maybe Don will surprise you and have it all done:)

  2. Hi Claudia, I bet a day home weed whacking and cleaning sounds wonderful to you right now! Have a great week-end, Doris

  4. I have songs running in my head all the time. Today, it’s a song from the video we made this week for the family’s who had children in our day camp for grieving kids. It keeps going over and over through my mind!

    Congratulations! So happy for you that you get to go home. Enjoy your time and your family. :)

    • I posted a few weeks back that I was taking a break until the end of September – being on the road and rehearsing all weekend long makes it very hard to maintain my end of the party. We’ll start again at the end of Sept.

  8. I am so happy for the three of you Claudia..I believe I already told you how much I like the fabric strips hanging on the wall..so bright and cheerful..and yes..I hear the music too my dear..right now it is Joni Mitchell’s “Clouds”..lol

  9. Enjoy your time wth your family, Claudia!! This will be so refreshing for you!!! Have fun at home and enjoy!! Francine

  10. I also have a tune in my head all the time. Sometimes it is very annoying! Right now, it is “Turn Around”. Hope that doesn’t put it in your head!
    nancyr

    • If it’s the one I’m thinking of, I have negative memories – it was part of a Broadway musical I coached that flopped!

  11. Gee, thanks…now I’ve got another song running through my head…just what I don’t need! I do love the fact that now we can look up these songs and find the lyrics…it’s become so easy! You have fun this weekend at home…no matter what you do! ;)

  12. Sounds like a plan!
    I love how you get so excited to ‘weed-wack’ !!! Funny, I used to love to weed wack. Now…I just go out to the garden and pull them while they are still young and tender. There are still spots though that just need a good WACKIN!
    I like the quilt pieces on the wall. They do brighten up the corner.
    Now as to the songs lyrics? Yes…on occasion, I have a bit of Crosby, Stills and Nash run through my head… or Tom Petty!
    The other thing? When my kid were little we would quote lines from some of their favorite movies on long road trips to see who could guess the movie…so even now, ESPECIALLY, in conversation– if the line suits the conversation…we just toss out lines QUOTED from movies, cartoons, etc.
    It is funny…we all laugh.
    …have a great time at home. Pat

  13. “Clouds” is one of my favorite songs. I often have songs in my head. Especially after being in a store where music is coming through the loud speaker.
    Enjoy your time at home. Maybe you should just enjoy, and forget the weeds.
    Give Scout a hug for me.

  14. I am so happy you get to go home for a few days!
    I meant to comment yesterday and say I loved the quilting strips on the wall. I like the separated strips in a row. It looks like artwork and I would keep it up if it were me. Thanks for you help with my questions!!!!!

  16. Have a wonderful time at home with your family, Claudia, and yes, I have music playing in my head all of the time. xo Laura

  17. So funny ! Music is almost always present with me……i have a question tho…when you are hearing songs do you hear them in the voice of the one who actually was singing or is it your voice singing the song that you hear? I hear the voice of the one who recorded the song. Thankfully :))))

    • Usually it’s the voice of the one actually singing the song, but occasionally it’s me.

  20. Hurray hurrah! Can you feel me beaming over here for you? It made me all smiley to read you get to go home! So happy for you. I was so sad when your car was poorly and you couldn’t.

    Happy happy reunion and days at home with your dear ones! xo

    P.S. adore Joni Mitchell! the sound track of my teens … Both Sides Now has led into Circle Game in my head now … wonder what’s up next …

  21. Great photo and love that song (of course). This is the weekend of the Phila. Folk Festival…we put our bikes in the car and rode on a rails to trails section that backs up to one of the stages. The music wasn’t so folksy…more loud, but a gorgeous day and fun to be out. Lots and lots of tattoos, blue hair, aging hippies and those too young to know what the “real” hippies were like – lol. So glad you are getting to go home for a few days and see Don and Scout — enjoy and don’t worry about the weed-whacking. Sometimes overgrown can be beautiful!!

  22. Claudia, at first glance your quilt strips were works to art to me too! I thought – what an original idea! Then of course [a modicum of] intelligence took over and I realized you’d hung some quilt strips on the wall, but I absolutely think you could have discovered a new art form!!

  23. Yup, that’s about it…lol. I’m due to leave England for Vancouver in about three more weeks and the minute I get to our house in Van I’ll have my critical mother head on evaluating the garden and new floors and the dusty surfaces. Even with jet-lag. What are we like?

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