Music Soothes The Soul

When you are sad, at times you need comfort music. It is sad when a competent self-sufficient woman says that she remembers 100% under oath that a man has sexually abused her and she is ignored. Then that man is rewarded with the highest judicial job in the country for a lifetime appointment that can last the next 30 years. That 100% named sexual abuser now has the power to vote for cases involving sexual abuse crimes that can affect the outcomes for all men and women Americans. He also gets the job even though he has never tried a single case in any courtroom.

The woman is a clinical psychology professor. She is a biostatistician who specializes in the design and analysis of clinical trials and other forms of intervention evaluation.  She teaches at two Universities and one of them since 1988. And our Senators ignore her. The nation has seen why women don’t want to share their personal feeling of worthlessness then and now even after a lifetime of dealing with your memory of assault but having to move on with your life and be productive and contribute to making lives better. Now her reputation has changed significantly from being the brilliant professor to being the girl who tried to ruin the career of a sexual abuser. Now rapists will continue to rape and women will continue to hide in shame and worthlessness even now.

So, I turn to music to sooth my soul. What could make you happier than a good old musical? Listen to the song from the musical Oklahoma, Oh! What a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, I got a beautiful feeling, everything’s going my way. I’m sure the attempted rapists is singing that song now. Listen to just about anything those guys wrote in collaboration, Richard Rogers & Roger Hammerstein, and you will feel happier as people have been listening to their music for 88 years. Watch some good old musical movies like South Pacific and see the girl and sing along to the song called, “I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair” while thinking about the professor who can’t ever wash that man out of her mind. Watch the King of Siam and see the woman sing the song called “Getting to know You” getting to know all about you as all of the world had to get to know these two people’s sad and sick past. . Climb every mountain and forge every sea in expectations   from the musical called The Sound of Music.

The lyricist and composer both went to Columbia University and grew up in Manhattan. They both married women named Dorothy. If you hate musicals then listen to their great songs. Republican are now singing to their song called The Lady is a Tramp sung by Frank Sinatra, written by Rogers. If you are the sad Democrat listen to the song from the musical Showboat called Old Man River also written by Hammerstein. If you feel empathy for both the sexual abuser who will get that great job even with the damaging accusation, or for the sexually abused woman who has exposed her entire life to the world, sing along to the song called “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in sympathy for whomever you choose. Also written by Rogers & Hammerstein. The words to the song say when you walk through a storm, hold your head up high.

The songs of these composers put the words, music and dance together and helps us all to understand just what life is with all its curves and turns. Watch their musical called Carousel where she sings the song called “If I Loved You” and how wonderful sex could be for all willingly and lovingly as it should be. In Carousel there is the self-destructive physically abusive man learning how to love. In South Pacific there is inter-racial love. They wrote Cinderella where the girl sings, “In my own little corner, in my own little chair, I can be whomever I want to be.” They wrote about hope. We all talk with their words and we don’t even know it because it is in the air we breathe. Big Sigh Folks!