Music always and forever soothes this savage breast

"If you're worried and you cant sleep,
just count your blessings instead of sheep
and you'll fall asleep counting your blessings."
"Count Your Blessings" (White Christmas)


Around this time of day I wake up, take care of my dogs and my basic needs, give them their breakfast, and I eat enough to stomach my early morning medication ritual: Percocet for pain, Klonopin for the anxiety about the pain until the Percocet kicks in.

PS The picture is of me in my bed - my favorite place to be!

But better than that, always better than that, while I wait for the medication and/or sleep, I listen to my sleep playlist.  I play it at night, when I need to sleep through bad pain, whenever.  And it never fails me.

Oliver Sacks (my hero neurological thinker) wrote:

"Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity." 



And now, my current playlist:


1. Count Your Blessings - Bing Crosby                         

2. If I Only Had A Brain - Jeremy Little 

3. Most Of The Time - Bob Dylan     

4. Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley

5. Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole       

6. The Rainbow Connection - Willie Nelson

7. Suite Bergamasque: 3. Clair de Lune - Alexis Weissenberg  (performing)

8. Bird Gerhl  - Antony & The Johnsons       

9. If You Want Me - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova    

10. My Heart Will Go On  - I Salonisti      

11. Canon in D Major, T. 337 - Societas Music Chamber Orchestra (performing)           

12. Carnival of the Animals: VII. Aquarium - Philharmania Orchestra (performing)       

13. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

14. A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith