"Fight" by Yours Truly

I wrote this song.

Then I realized that it was about cancer.

Then I pounded on the keys with all my might.

Then I brought my mini video camera to the West Michigan Cancer Center and snuck it inside of the electric grand when no one was looking.

I hate cancer. I'm pretty sure that everyone does. This song reminds me of the tedious repitition that it requires- repitition of treatment, repitition of giving up all of your strength and, more important than anything else, repitition of prayer. I called it "Fight" because even though we know that cancer is one of the worst battles that anyone can ever face, fighting it is ultimately a choice.

Especially if you choose to believe what the Bible says and fight it with faith. 

"Speak Low" by Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash

There's one more week of summer, but it's supposedly going to rain everyday this week. Which means that tonight is the last summery night. Which means that it's time for "Speak Low."

This lilting melody was written in 1943, and it makes me so very happy that I can't help but smile every time I hear it. It makes me think of those lovely summer nights when even the coolest of evening breezes is warm and fireflies are twinkling and the air smells like wild roses...

But if every night was this way, we wouldn't appreciate the loveliness of the perfection that comes about in June, now would we?

Farewell, summer evenings.

"They Can't Take That Away from Me" by George Gershwin

If you hear the soft pitter patter of rain in the background, it's for a very good reason.

It was raining.

Plus this is a very rainy day type of song. I heard it for the first time a week and a half ago, and continues to make me smile.

Picture, if you will, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on a foggy ferry deck in 1937.

And, if you have a cup of tea to sip, please sip it.

It's just that kind of song.