Eclectic

"Selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas."

I have electic taste in music. I really do. I like most genre. Love classical - Baroque, Classical and Romantic Periods mostly. Love smooth instrumental jazz. Dig Rock'n'Roll ... especially the 70's. Have grown to appreciate the music of the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's thru the years. Was raised on Big Band music ... grew to really enjoy it. Love to listen to the crooners from the 40's and 50's. I like some music from the 80's and 90's, but mostly Contempory Christian music from those decades. I enjoy Swing music; some Rockabilly; some Blues, but mostly instrumental in those genre. Not big into the vocals with that music. I have found that Pandora, an online Radio station, is a wonderful venue for being introduced to new artists. It is where I found Belgium Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django (pronounced "john-go") Reinhardt who played an type of jazz/swing music back in the 30's & 40's.

The thing that I enjoy about a lot of the music from the 20's, 30's & 40's is that it is fun music ... positive message ... about love and happy times. So much of today's music is so introspective ... almost brooding in nature ... both the music and the lyrics.

Anyway, I have plucked from the many genres in existence the styles of music that I like the most and have quite a massive (by my standards) CD collection. It has to be over 1000 CD's for sure. I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Now my goal is to find a suitable place to store them so I have easy access, yet they are attractively presented ... like a bookcase made for CDs. Someday ... Chaoi.

Okay, so it's inane ...

It's 2:12 am and I can't get to sleep. I am getting over a bout with food poisoning. Must have been that dad gum Jimmy Dean's Breakfast Sandwich I ate Sunday morning. Wow! Didn't know a person could projectile vomit that much stuff. Dang! Anyway ... I was lying in bed, my mind wandering, as it tends to do more often than not and I thought, "ya know, that phrase SHIT HAPPENS is wrong. Life happens ..." Yup, no foolin', I thought that. At 2 am on Wednesday morning, March 10th I thought that. I was pondering all the negative, hurtful things that have gone down in my life ... fortunately for me I had a good upbringing (although apparently my estranged sister and I don't share that feeling), so I had a solid foundation. I mean, a person definitely has a better chance of making it through life with a minimal amount of damage to their psyche if they are close to God ... as in an intimate relationship. I have often said that I didn't know how people make it in this life without God. We can only carry ourselves so far on our own ... then we run out of whatever it is that we run out of ... desire, intestinal fortitude, gumption, moxie, whatever it is. With God we look past ourselves and straight into the face of God, which is seen in others or something of that nature. Being still before God, which has always been a struggle for me, helps to sort things out sometimes. So, back to my point about life happening ... we all have choices to make throughout our lives. For better or for worse, we make these choices and must live with the consequences that result from those choices. How we handle those consequences says a lot about our character.

The real question I keep asking and can't seem to find an answer for is "Now explain to me why God bothered created us if He knew all THIS would happen again?"

Is this inane? You decide ...