Music Is Food For The Soul
We think most of us are feeling a bit uneasy these days. It’s hard to pick up the paper (or e-reader news streams) and not feel a little bit of your soul dissipate into the ether. In these unstable times, we hope you are discovering inspiration in your daily life! If you are feeling generally down or deflated, lift up---there is a solution and a balm to uplift! Arts and Music!
Stress is unhealthy. We need to keep our spirits healthy so that we can be strong physically. Our joy in life comes not from just surviving, but from tapping into the wellspring of human creativity that gives us the mental and soulful strength to embrace our livelihood.
So let us do you a favor. Let us give you permission to feed your soul and spirit, as you would feed your body. It is not just important, it’s critical.
Take out your violin and play. For yourself or with others. Make a recording or give a recital (even if only to your teddy bear collection!) Be artful….it will allow you to be completely yourself.
Vermont Violins wants to help you do this. If you are experiencing financial difficulties that make it hard to take artistic action on behalf of yourself, know that we are here to help. We have a range of products and services that can help make your dollars stretch further: creative and generous financing, a rental program that emphasizes both affordability and quality, and a great repair team to help your suffering violin sound and play better than ever!
But however you do it, with or without our help, give yourself permission to feed the soul and tap into the creative forces that we all share. It’s non-negotiable: without creativity we lose our humanity so go pickup your paintbrush or your bow and fill your home with art.
We love quoting Shakespeare, so here we go: Richard II, in prison and regretting many of his past mistakes, remarks on music heard off stage, played poorly by the guards. After some muttering bemusements about the poor timekeeping and missed notes, he finally realizes that while the musicianship is weak, the music is a balm nevertheless.
“Yet blessing on his heart that gives [music to] me,
For ‘tis a sign of love, and love to Richard
Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.”
“All Hating?” Ok, perhaps an overstatement for most of us. After all, we have not been locked up in Richard’s 15th-century dungeon. But life can seem bleak at times. Like Richard, embrace the arts in your life: the art you create and the arts created around you. Celebrate it, and your soul, like Richard’s, will find the resources it needs to live in the expanding joy formed from human expression.