Namaste. Stay in the moment. Okay, try again.
In the seventh month of Covid we are frustrated: if only politicians listened to doctors and scientists, they could reduce the terrifying number of new cases here ( 1,200 a day) and unnecessary deaths.
I had to go three places to get a flu shot.
Live in the moment, we say. Appreciate this time without worry (or at least too much worry) about the future. “These are the good old days,” Carly Simon says in her lovely song, “Anticipation.”
Here are four songs to keep you in the moment, make you laugh, and feel joy.
Carly Simon’s wise and charming “Anticipation”
The joyful “Jump” by Van Halen
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by the whimsical Tears for Fears
The outrageously funny, sweet “Shiny Happy People” by R.E.M., with Kate Pierson from the B-52s.
Namaste!
All great choices! all appropriate too, now, still.
I love the videos, too. 🙂
I read on a “Friends” fan page that their original theme song was going to be “Shiny Happy People” but it got changed during the production process to the Rembrandts song which I have come to love during the lockdown. I didn’t watch it at all when it was on regular tv, but its perfect for Rona binging.
I’ll have to watch “Friends” again. I loved Jennifer Aniston in “Cake,” for which she should have won the Oscar. 🙂
She was also in the Best modern office movie (imo), Office Space.
🙂