Mix.

Mixing music and I go way back to when boom boxes and cassette tapes were in fashion. It was much more difficult then -- when you had to hit play and press record at the same time -- and you couldn't skip tracks. You just took the tape for all it was worth.

These days, Groove Shark and 8 Tracks make it simple to playlist-and-go, but that's still not the way I roll.

Tonight I visited a coffee shop whose Internet connection makes me grumpy, and I really meant to be productive, but it was just a lot more fun to feel out the beats, emotions, and lyrical significance of my new mix.

The mix, I believe, shall be entitled:
"What I Held in My Hands",
which refers to a poem by Marge Piercy
which I love, and can practically quote by heart.

Let's see:

I said, I like my life. If I
have to give it back, if they
take it from me, let me only not
feel that I wasted any, that I forgot
to love anyone I meant to love,
that I forgot to give what I held
in my hands.

There's more, but that's the part that sticks with me every time I read it.

My mix features some great finds from music blogs that I've been perusing lately.
You can peruse them to:

Ear Farm
Said the Gramophone
I (Heart) Music

This is one of the happier songs (it might get cut):



I used an exceptional lot of colons in this post.