My Musical Life 4-30-26

April 30th, 2026

#14 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Listen to me people
I ain’t got time to think about Money
Or what it can buy
And I ain’t got time to sit down and wonder
What make the birdies fly🪄
And I don’t have time to think about
What makes the flowers grow
And I’ve never given it a second thought
To where the rivers flow🪄
And I ain’t got time for nothin’ else🪄
I ain’t got time to discuss the weather
And how long it’s going to last
And I ain’t got time to do no studying
Once I get out of class🪄
I’m telling you I’m just a fellow with a one track mind
And when it comes to thinkin’ about
Anything but my baby
I just don’t have the time🪄
Oh yeah
And I ain’t got time for nothin’ else
Don’t you know I, I’m thinking about my baby
I ain’t got time for nothin’ else🪄
Yeah the world could ever match her wealth
She’s some kinda wonderful
Got heaven right here on earth🪄
‘Cause I’m just a fellow with a one track mind
And when it comes to thinkin about
Anything but my baby
I just don’t have the time🪄
I’m too busy thinkin’ about my baby
Oh I ain’t got time for nothin’ else
Too busy thinkin’ about my baby
Ain’t got time for nothing else

My Abundant Life 4-30-26

April 30th, 2026

When Did You Feel Most Beautiful?

“I don’t believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.”

Sharon Stone (American Actress; March 10th, 1958)

“The more I wonder, the more I love.”

Alice Walker (American Novelist & Short Story Writer; February 9th, 1944)

“When wonder and love become as indispensable to you as foundation and blush, you will become the most radiant woman in the world.”

“I know for a fact that love recreates you. I have felt more beautiful with each passing year and seem to have found a ‘Fountain of Youth’ of sorts as I look and feel better now than I ever have. Each passing year is better than any before it. My husband Neil is my love elixir.”


–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 138 to 139 of 501.

I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.

My Musical Life 4-29-26

April 29th, 2026

#13 Hair (The Cowsills) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
She asked him why
Why I’m a hairy guy
I’m hairy noon and nighty-night night
My hair is a fright🪄
I’m hairy high and low
But don’t ask me why
‘Cause he don’t know
It’s not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead, darlin’🪄
Gimme a head with hair
Long, beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming
Streaming, flaxen, waxen🪄
Give me down to there (hair)
Shoulder length or longer (hair)
Here, baby, there, mama
Everywhere, daddy, daddy🪄
Hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair🪄
I let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair
A home for the fleas
A hive for the buzzin’ bees
A nest for birds
There ain’t no words for the beauty and the splendor
The wonder of my🪄
Hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair🪄
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratsy, matsy
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen🪄
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied🪄
Oh, say, can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair’s too short🪄
Down to here
Down to there
Down to there?
Down to where?
It stops by itself🪄
Don’t never have to cut it
‘Cause it stops by itself🪄
Oh, give me a head with hair
Long, beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen🪄
Now won’t you gimme it down to there? (hair)
Shoulder length or longer (hair)
Here, baby, there, mama
Everywhere, daddy, daddy🪄
Hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Hair

My Abundant Life 4-29-26

April 29th, 2026

Allure: The Feminine Mystique

“Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.”

Rosalind Russell (American Actress & Model; June 4th, 1907 to November 28th, 1976)

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”

Ntozake Shange (American Playwright & Poet; September 11th, 1885 to March 2nd, 1930)

“You choose to take joy in real life as it unfolds day by day, hour by hour, a heartbeat at a time.”

“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.”

Emily Dickinson (American Poet; December 19th, 1830 to May 15th, 1886)

“I believe our life IS the gift! I live newly into each moment…each breath. To know I get to love my husband completely in each moment with a fire hose of love IS the juice of life!


–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 136 to 138 of 501.

I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.

My Musical Life 4-28-26

April 28th, 2026

#12 Crystal Blue Persuasion (Tommy James & The Shondells) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Look over yonder
What do you see?
The sun is a-rising
Most definitely🪄
A new day is coming (ooh, ooh)
People are changing
Ain’t it beautiful? (Ooh, ooh)
Crystal blue persuasion🪄
Better get ready to see the light
Love, love is the answer (ooh, ooh)
And that’s all right🪄
So don’t you give up now (ooh, ooh)
So easy to find
Just look to your soul (your soul)
And open your mind🪄
Crystal blue persuasion, hmm, hmm
It’s a new vibration
Crystal blue persuasion
Crystal
Blue persuasion🪄
Maybe tomorrow
When he looks down
On every green field (ooh, ooh)
And every town
All of his children
And every nation
There’ll be peace and good brotherhood🪄
Crystal blue persuasion, yeah
Crystal blue persuasion, aah-aah
Crystal blue persuasion, aah-aah
(Crystal blue persuasion, aah-aah)

My Abundant Life 4-28-26

April 28th, 2026

The Intuitive Sense

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

Florence Scovel Shinn (American Artist & Book Illustrator; September 24th, 1871 to October 17th, 1940)

…believed that the intelligence that “arises out of sex and beauty is intuition.”

D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist & Short Story Writer; September 11th, 1885 to March 2nd, 1930)

…feminine intuition was a result of our “age-long training in human relations.”

Margaret Mead (American Cultural Anthropologist and Author; December 16th, 1901 to November 15th, 1978)

“Intuition is the subliminal sense Spirit endowed us with to maneuver safely through the maze that is real life. Wild animals rely on their intuition to stay alive; we should reply on ours to thrive.”

“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”

Katharine Butler Hathaway (American Writer; 1890 to 1942)

“One such intuitive signal is the emotional trembling that accompanies creative discovery or warns us not to take an action. Another intuitive message breaks through when we suddenly grasp that to try something new might be delightful; we do so and are surprised by joy. A third intuitive nudge occurs through revelational the inner knowing that helps us arrive at the right place at the right time so that we can be swept away by the benevolent flow of synchronicity that gets us where we’re meant to be as easily as the Universe can arrange it.”

“…one in whom persuasion and belief/Had ripened into faith, and faith become/A passionate intuition.”

William Wordsworth (English Poet; April 7th 1770 to April 23rd, 1850)

“I have always had a strong intuitive sense of my experience of the world. It has served me well and I trust it. Combined with my synesthesia, I feel bolstered by my intuition in understanding and navigating my world.”


–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 135 to 136 of 501.

I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.